Graduate Programs

Fellowships, Scholarships, Grants, and Prizes

UT Fellowships

Each year CAAAS offers recruitment fellowships to a small number of its incoming graduate students based on their regular admission applications; no separate fellowship application is required.  Stipends vary up to $15,000 per year, plus tuition and fees; such fellowships are occasionally combined with a multi-year offer of  a Teaching Assistantship.

Preemptive Fellowship
Awarded to an outstanding incoming student; one to three awards are made annually.

Continuing Fellowships
Each year CREEES offers fellowships to a small number of its currently enrolled graduate students.  These awards are made based on the students’ records since entering graduate school, research proposals, personal statements, and letters of recommendation.  The deadline to apply is generally late January each year. 

Graduate Anthropology Scholarships:
The Department of Anthropology offers a small number of $1,000 scholarships that enable students to pay tuition and required fees at the resident rate for one academic year. These awards significantly help reduce tuition costs for non- residents.

Teaching Assistantships

The Center offers a limited number of teaching assistantships and substantial research support to graduate students. Many UT departments also offer teaching assistantships. The small number of assistantships available are seldom offered to first-year students, but many graduate students receive teaching assistantships after demonstrating academic promise during their first year. TAs receive a tuition-supplement which is usually sufficient to cover nine hours of coursework (this amount is reduced if the TA is appointed for less than 20 hours a semester), plus an out-of-state tuition waiver for non-residents of Texas and health insurance benefits.

Other Resources

Guaranteed student loans, Basic Education Opportunity Grants, Work/Study, and other financial aid information is available through the UT Office of Student Financial Services.