Fellowship payments are provided on the last Friday of each month during the academic year.  Unless otherwise noted in your award letter, you will receive a total of eight (8) stipend payments during the year, from September through April. Unlike Assistantship stipends, which are paid through the University's payroll system, Fellowship stipends for recipients who are U.S. citizens will not be reported to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by the University.  Therefore, U.S. recipients generally will be required to report the amount of the award to the IRS and may be required to make quarterly tax payments.  Recipients who are not U.S. citizens may have taxes withheld and the amount of the award may be reported to the IRS.  If deemed reportable, they will also be required to obtain either a U.S. Social Security Number or IRS Individual Taxpayer ID number, if they have not already done so.  Please see the section, “Important Tax and Immigration Information,” below.  Most Graduate Fellowships awards will also provide a scholarship component.  See the preceding section on "Graduate School Scholarships" for general policies regarding these awards.  

As recipient of a Graduate School Fellowship, you must be enrolled as a full-time student and you must make satisfactory progress toward a Graduate School degree, as determined by your academic department and the Graduate School.  Failure to maintain satisfactory degree progress or violations of academic integrity will result in termination of the Graduate School Scholarship award and retroactive revocation of the entire scholarship for the current semester. Any unused portion of a stipend or scholarship award will revert back to the Graduate School to support other students.

A limited number of newly admitted Ph.D. students will be awarded Georgetown University Fellowships.  For University Fellowship recipients who matriculated prior to the Fall 2007 semester, each year's award will include an eight-month stipend which is $3,000 greater than the standard Graduate School stipend, plus full scholarship support. For University Fellowship recipients matriculating in the Fall 2007 semester or afterward, the annual University Fellowship award will be a twelve-month long standard Graduate School stipend, lasting through the Fall, Spring, and Summer terms, plus full scholarship support during the academic year (Fall and Spring semesters). 

University Fellows matriculating prior to the Fall 2007 semester will have no service obligation during two of their five years of support; during the other three years, they will have teaching and/or research obligations, as determined by their individual departments.  The preferred sequence of service/non-service semesters will vary among departments, in accord with their different pedagogical structures.  University Fellowship recipients matriculating in the Fall 2007 semester or afterward will have service obligations during the fall and spring semester of each academic year; they will have no service obligation over the summer term.  During those semesters in which they do have a service obligation, University Fellows will be appointed to the appropriate category of Graduate School Assistantship, and will receive their stipend in monthly payments through the University's payroll system, as described in the section, "Graduate School Assistantship Awards," above. 

As recipient of a Georgetown University Fellowship, you must be enrolled as a full-time student and you must make satisfactory progress toward the Ph.D., as determined by your academic department and the Graduate School.  Failure to maintain satisfactory degree progress or violations of academic integrity will result in termination of the Graduate School Scholarship award and retroactive revocation of the entire scholarship for the current semester. Any unused portion of a stipend or scholarship award will revert back to the Graduate School to support other students.