Doctoral Fellowship

The Doctoral Fellowship is designed for those nominees who show the greatest promise for scholarly and professional achievement in their respective disciplines at the doctoral level. It is renewable for another year contingent upon eligibility. Fellowships will be awarded for three semesters, fall, spring, and summer for a total of eleven (11) months. The Doctoral Fellowship pays a monthly stipend and provides a tuition scholarship for fall, spring, and summer. Doctoral students have a limit of 4 calendar years (48 months) of financial support of all types. Doctoral students are also limited to two years of financial support of any combination of doctoral fellowship or dissertation research assistantship. Morris fellow holders are ineligible to apply for a Doctoral fellowship award.

Nominees must be fully admissible to a graduate doctoral degree program and must meet the following criteria:

• An overall undergraduate grade point average of at least 3.0 (A=4.0) or
• A grade point average for the last two years of work in the bachelor's degree of 3.5 (A=4.0) AND
• An overall graduate grade point average of at least 3.7 (A=4.0) or
• A score in the 75th percentile or higher on a standard test such as the GRE, MAT or GMAT

Questions regarding the Graduate Assistantship\Fellowship Office: Contact gaoffice@siu.edu