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Eligibility
As a part of the program's intention to provide the opportunity to advance academically and develop scholarship in a reasonable period of time, students in the Ph.D. program receive a tuition scholarship and a student assistantship to allow vigorous and full-time commitment to their academic endeavors. Students in the M.S. program do not receive a tuition scholarship or an assistantship.
Assistantships for students in the Ph.D. program may be withheld or reduced for those students that fail to provide a full commitment to research and scholarly activities after passing the Pre-Candidacy Examination. This reduction will be submitted to the Graduate Advisory Council (GAC) via a recommendation by the student's advisor. The GAC may then inquire into this issue and decide on an outcome. Students in good academic/research standing are assured of their assistantship for five years by their sponsoring department or section. Assistantship support beyond five years is at the discretion of the advisor. A sixth-year student would not get an assistantship from the department, although the advisor may continue to provide one from her/his laboratory funds. Students are accepted into the program with the understanding that they will devote their full time to learning and research. As the assistantships are paid at the beginning of every quarter, any student leaving after receiving the assistantship but without completing the quarter will be required to repay the balance in a prorated manner to the department. Students in the Ph.D. degree track receiving an assistantship and tuition scholarship who, for reasons other than departmental and college decisions, transfer to the M.S. degree track may be required, at the discretion of the GAC, to repay the cost of tuition and assistantship support provided to them.
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