Graduate Assistantships
Graduate Assistantships provide on-campus*, extracurricular, hands-on learning experiences and stipends to graduate students. Assistantships are not scholarships (which are awarded independently of any expectation of corresponding activity), and they are not work/study appointments (which provide hourly wages for usually non-educational work).
Graduate Assistant positions are available to well-qualified, matriculated graduate students in institutional activities that are academically relevant to the student’s program of study. Requirements to be met for these positions are:
- Graduate student matriculated in a Graduate program
- GPA of 3.00 or higher
- Graduate student registered in the current semester
- Graduate Assistants may not be employed by any other employment category of the university.
Stipends awarded to Graduate Assistants range from $1200 to $4800 per semester as defined by the Board of Regents for the CSCU system. An award from $1200 to $2400 is considered a half time assistantship and does not exceed 10 hours of work per week. An award above $2400 and up to $4800 is considered a full-time assistantship and does not exceed 20 hours of work per week.
In addition to a stipend award, full-time graduate students (enrolled in nine credits or more per semester) have the following fees waived:
- State University Fee
- University General Fee except for that portion attributable to student accident insurance
- Student Activity Fee
If you are interested in applying for a Graduate Assistantship at WCSU for the MS Biological Diversity program, please speak to the Biology Graduate Program Coordinator(s) and fill out the Graduate-Assistant-Application.
