Financial Aid --> Graduate Students

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The Department of Nuclear Engineering offers financial assistance in the form of non-teaching assistantships, research assistantships, fellowships, and scholarships to incoming graduate students. Assistantships are administered by the department, as are some fellowships.

Assitantships
Assistantships include a stipend (e.g. salary or scholarship to cover health insurance premium) and may include tuition and fees. Available funding is determined each semester by the department funding for Graduate Assistants Non Teaching (GANTS) and the budget of research contracts for Graduate Assistant Research (GARs). Standard assistantship offers to new domestic students include a commitment to paying stipend and tuition and fees for two regular semesters (9 months). There is no commitment for summer. Standard assistantship offers to new international students include a commitment to paying stipends and tuition and fees for one full year (12 months).

Students are encouraged to find advisors with research projects that can pay their assistantships as GARs during the first semester.

Research Assistantships
Some research assistantships are offered by the faculty based on the student’s background, research interests, and their match to the faculty’s research projects. Our faculty members are actively involved in a variety of exciting research projects and high-achieving students are often offered research assistantships by the faculty at the time of admission. Other students are advised to contact the faculty in their area of interest for consideration for research assistantships.

Fellowships
In addition, some fellowships are administered by the college and university. Your application for admission automatically results in consideration for all assistantships and fellowships administered by the department, college, and university. Well-qualified students are also encouraged to apply for fellowships from outside organizations (e.g. the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Department of Homeland Security, and others).

Almost all of our graduate students receive some sort of financial support.

You may also contact the Financial Aid Office:

Director of Student Financial Aid
Physical Address:
Texas A&M University
2nd Floor, The Pavilion
College Station, TX 77843-1252

Mailing Address:
Texas A & M University
Scholarships & Financial Aid
P.O. Box 30016
College Station, TX 77842-3016
http://financialaid.tamu.edu

Scholarships from other sources:

• College of Engineering

  • Graduate Training Program in Space Life Sciences
  • National Excellence Graduate Fellowships

• Texas A&M University

  • Bush Foundation Grants for Student Travel

• Other Organizations

  • American Association of University Women Selected Professions Fellowships
  • American Nuclear Society (ANS) Graduate Scholarships
  • DOD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
  • DOE Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Fellowship
  • DOE Graduate Fellowships in Computational Sciences
  • DOE Graduate Fellowships in High-Performance Computer Science
  • DOE Graduate Fellowships in Naval Nuclear Propulsion.
  • DOE Graduate Fellowships in Stewardship Science
  • DOE NEHP Graduate Fellowships
  • Earth System Science Fellowship Program
  • Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
  • GEM Fellowship
  • NASA/Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellowships
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
  • The Hertz Foundation Fellowships
  • The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security Scholarship and Fellowship Program