Graduate School Scholarship awards cover only tuition charges for courses to be applied toward your degree program. They do not cover academic fees or other fees (e.g., the Yates Field House fee or the Health Insurance fee), and do not cover tuition for courses that will not be applied toward your degree program.
Scholarship recipients are not required to perform services as a condition of the scholarship award. If the scholarship portion of your award does carry a service obligation, you must contact the Graduate School to arrange for that portion of the award to be disbursed as a stipend, with appropriate tax withholding. International students who receive Graduate School Scholarship awards may have additional tax obligations; please see the section, “Important Tax and Immigration Information for International Students,” below.
As recipient of a Graduate School Scholarship, 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.
Graduate School Scholarship awards are usually divided between semesters of the academic year. Unused portions of a scholarship provided for Fall semester can be applied toward Spring semester, with the explicit approval of your academic department and the Graduate School. Unused portions of a Spring semester scholarship cannot, however, be applied toward either past or future semesters, but will revert back to the Graduate School to support other students. This stipulation applies both to scholarship-only awards and to the scholarship component of an assistantship or fellowship award.
By way of example, suppose you were awarded 12 credits of scholarship support for the Fall semester and no scholarship support for the Spring semester. If you register for only 9 credits in the Fall semester, you may request through your academic department that the remaining 3 credits of scholarship support be carried over to the Spring semester. If approved by both your department and the Graduate School, the 3 credits of scholarship will be credited to your account for Spring semester. But if you are awarded 12 credits of scholarship for the Spring semester and register for only 9 credits, the 3 credits of unused scholarship will revert back to the Graduate School; you will not be permitted to apply it to either the preceding Fall semester or the following Fall semester.
