What types of financial assistance are available?
The Math Department has four categories of financial aid: (1) Tuition Scholarships, (2) Teaching Assistants, (3) Teaching Associates, and (4) Math Lab Assistants. Tuition Scholarships are available to first semester graduate students only (but may be renewed), cover tuition, and require the student to work 8 hours per week. Teaching Assistants are required to work 20 hours per week. This category of aid covers tuition for Fall and Spring and pays $7,200 per academic year. Teaching Associates teach two three-hour classes per Fall and Spring semester. This category of aid covers tuition for Fall and Spring and pays $8,200 per academic year. Teaching Associates must have successfully completed 18 hours of graduate study (as a consequence, this category of aid is only available to second year graduate students). Math Lab Assistants work 20 hours per week in the Math Lab.
At least 86% of Cumberland students receive some type of financial assistance with average awards of $8,000 to resident students and $5-6,000 to those not living on campus. The award comes in a package that may include a scholarship, grant, low-interest loan and part-time employment. The type of package and amount of assistance depend on your financial need, the amount of funds available to the University, and the number of Cumberland students who qualify for assistance.
Students in the College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation are eligible for loans and scholarships from various sources. Traineeships are available to a limited number of graduate students. All students admitted will be considered for scholarship funds and research and teaching assistantships. For more information about financial assistance, contact ASU’s Student Financial Assistance office at (480) 965-3355, or online at http://www.asu.edu/fa/. For More Information: See Student Services Please submit suggestions for general FAQ’s to Webmaster.
The three main categories of financial assistance programs include grants/scholarships/fellowships, work-study and student loans. Grants, scholarships, and fellowships do not have to be repaid. Work-study (College of Arts and Sciences only) allows a student to work on campus an average of eight to ten hours a week. Loans made from the federal government or from private lenders must be repaid; however the interest rate is usually low and the repayment period is normally ten years.
The primary form of support available to incoming student include Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) and fellowships. Sometimes, students might be offered Graduate Research Assistantships (GRAs) by individual professors but these decisions are made the specific faculty members. When making decisions on offers of Graduate Teaching Assistantships, we do not take financial need or ability of students to support themselves into account. However, international students who are not given a Graduate Teaching Assistantship will not be offered admission unless they have completed a financial certification form indicating sufficient resources available to complete their degree requirements. For more information on funding opportunities click here.
