Four Reasons to Apply for a Graduate Assistantship

The graduate assistant application for 2025-2026 is now open. Deadline to apply is March 1, 2025.
Four Reasons to Apply for a Graduate Assistantship

The graduate assistant application for 2025-2026 is now open. For details, visit the graduate admissions website. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2025.

Benefits of a Graduate Assistantship

  1. Strengthen the quality of your education by creating connections with your academic program or with additional departments throughout campus

  2. Provide valuable and necessary services to the University

  3. Tuition remission assistance (varies between 20 percent - 80 percent)

  4. Stipend payments (varies between $2,200- $8,800 per academic year)

Application Criteria

In order to apply, applicants must have a minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0 and be regularly admitted as a graduate student into a graduate degree program.

What to Expect If Accepted

Once chosen, graduate assistants will be required to:

  • Participate in a workshop prior to the start of the semester

  • Satisfy a service commitment during each of the academic semesters if assigned to an academic department (five to  20 hours depending on level of hire)

  • Maintain the minimum required GPA of 3.0 (A student may be dismissed from their GA position for failure to remain in good academic standing.)
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