The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offers merit-based awards on a competitive basis to incoming and continuing students.  Congratulations on being offered a Georgetown University Graduate School merit-based financial aid award.  The primary purpose of these offers of financial support is to assist graduate students in the pursuit of their academic careers and the timely completion of their Graduate School degrees. 

The Graduate School provides three forms of merit-based awards to Master's and Ph.D. students: Scholarships, Assistantships and Fellowships. In general, each program reviews the academic status of its students and makes recommendations regarding which students should receive merit-based awards, and how much per student. Therefore, if you are interested in being considered for such an award, you should speak with your program directly, as some merit criteria vary between programs. Programs submit their merit award recommendations to the Graduate School. The Graduate School then conducts a final review of the students to ensure that each meets the Graduate School's basic eligibility criteria (i.e. minimum grade point average, semester of matriculatmerit award usage history, enrollment status, etc.). Eligible awards are then processed by the Graduate School.

Ph.D. students who matriculated in or after Fall semester 2002 generally are provided up to five-years of continuous support subject to normal progress toward that degree.  Ph.D. students who matriculated prior to Fall semester 2002, and students pursuing other degrees, regardless of their date of matriculation, are provided awards on a semester-to-semester or year-to-year basis.  These awards may be renewed, subject to departmental recommendation and continued satisfactory progress toward the Graduate School degree, up to the maximum time limits for support set by each department and by the Graduate School. Reviews of all merit-based financial aid awards are conducted annually. More information is provided for each of type of support in a seperate page, accessible through the links listed along the left.   

There are also other competitive awards offered to current graduate students, including conference travel grants, doctoral dissertation research fellowship awards, and doctoral dissertation research travel awards. Information on these awards can be found at the following pages on our site:

Doctoral Research Fellowship and Travel Awards:  http://grad.georgetown.edu/pages/dissertation_research_su.cfm 

Conference Travel Grant Awards: http://grad.georgetown.edu/pages/conference_travel_grants.cfm

For information on need-based financial aid please follow the link to the Office of Financial Student Services to the left.  Health Insurance, Student Accounts and other informative sites can be reached by following the links to the left.  If you have any questions please contact the Assistant Director for Financial Aid in the Graduate School.