Funding

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Most graduate student financial support comes through your UF degree program or non-UF sources in these forms:

Assistantships provide you with funding in exchange for working as a teaching assistant, researcher, or academic support staff. They usually include a stipend (biweekly paycheck), tuition wavier at in-state rates, and health insurance coverage. You do not need to repay them. To apply for a UF assistantship from your degree program’s unit, use this form: Application for Fellowship or Assistantship. Check beforehand with that unit for its deadlines, requirements, and procedures.

Fellowships are often long-term, competitive, merit-based funding that enables you to concentrate full-time on your studies. They usually include a stipend, tuition waiver at in-state rates, and health insurance coverage for a set number of years. Other fellowships are short-term and offer partial funding to cover the dissertation phase of your Ph.D. program. You do not need to repay them. Some are funded by UF departments and colleges; others, by non-UF sources. To apply for a UF fellowship from your degree program’s unit, use this form: Application for Fellowship or Assistantship. Check beforehand with that unit for its deadlines, requirements, and procedures.

Grants are usually limited, need-based funding that you do not need to repay. They are available through different sources. One example is the UF Graduate Grant from the UF Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships — click here to learn more: UF Graduate Grant.

Loans are funding that you borrow and must pay back. Options at UF include Unsubsidized Loans and Graduate PLUS Loans. To learn more, click here: Unsubsidized Loans and Graduate PLUS Loans.

Scholarships come in many forms, amounts, and lengths of time. Some are need-based; others, merit-based. They provide funding that you do not need to repay. To explore graduate student scholarship options, click here: UF Scholarship Search Engine.

Contact your degree program to find out about available funding: Contacts.

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Funding Through UF Graduate School

• FAMU Feeder Fellowship
• Grinter Fellowship
• Karen A. Holbrook Graduate Research Endowment
• McKnight Doctoral Fellowship
• McNair Graduate Fellowship
• Supplemental Retention Scholarship
• UF Santa Fe College Faculty Development Project

Funding Through Other UF and Non-UF Sources

• African Studies Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
• Center for European Studies Student Funding
• European Studies Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
• Graduate PLUS Loans
• Graduate Unsubsidized Loans
• James W. Kynes Scholarship
• Latin American Studies Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
• Latin American Studies Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
• Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
• UF Graduate Grant
• UF Graduate Student Council Travel Grants
• UF Office of Research Travel Grants
• UF Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships
• UF Scholarship Search Engine