Graduate School Fellowship Awards
Graduate School Fellowship stipends are provided without a work obligation. Students may be appointed to a Graduate School Fellowship for a full academic year (September through April), or for a single semester; those holding a Graduate School Fellowship appointment in one semester of an academic year may be appointed to a Graduate School Assistantship in the other. (Recipients of the special four‑year Georgetown University Fellowship awards should see the following section for information regarding their appointments.)
Fellowship payments are provided on the last working day 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 for International Students,” 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. Each year's award will include a stipend $3,000 greater than the standard Graduate School stipend, plus full scholarship support.
University Fellows will have no work 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 work/no‑work semesters will vary among departments, in accord with their different pedagogical structures. During those semesters in which they have no work obligation, University Fellows will receive stipend payments on the last working day of each month during the academic year, as described in the preceding section on "Graduate School Fellowship Awards." During those semesters in which they do have a work 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.
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