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.  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.

The Graduate School provides three forms of merit-based awards: Scholarships, Assistantships and Fellowships.  More information is provided for each of type of support in a seperate page.  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.