AWARD AMOUNTS
Awards range from $1,000 to $2,500 per semester. Scholarships are awarded for the academic year and disbursed on a semester basis. These scholarships require a minimum enrollment of six semester hours of graduate level courses (5000 or above) each semester the scholarship is awarded.

DEADLINES
Please submit all scholarship application materials to the Office of the Graduate College by the appropriate scholarship deadline date.

Applicants who have not yet completed the application for admission to graduate study at Texas State must submit all admission application materials along with scholarship application materials by the appropriate scholarship application deadline, unless the program has an earlier admission deadline. Programs with admissions deadlines that are earlier than March 1 are Counseling and Guidance, Creative Writing, Mass Communication, Physical Therapy, Professional Counseling, School Psychology, Social Work and PhD Aquatic Biology. In this case, the admissions file must be complete by the posted admissions deadline. Please review your program’s deadline and other information at http://www.gradcollege.txstate.edu/Prospect_Students/Pgms_Apps.html.

(Admission information may be obtained from the Office of the Graduate College located in J.C. Kellam Administration Building, Suite 280; by calling 512-245-2581; or by visiting the website at http://www.gradcollege.txstate.edu)

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

·         Graduate College Scholarship applicants must have been admitted to a Texas State master’s or doctoral program or admission file must be complete.

·         Master’s applicants must have a 3.5 GPA on the last 60 hours of course work leading to the first bachelor’s degree.  Master’s applicants to the McCoy College of Business Administration must have a 3.5 GPA on the last 60 hours of undergraduate course work, OR a GMAT score of 600 or higher.

·         Ph.D. applicants must have an overall GPA of at least 3.5 on all graduate course work.     

Students must reapply for Graduate College Scholarships each academic year.  College-specific eligibility criteria are:

o           Master's students in the Colleges of Applied Arts, Fine Arts & Communication, Health Professions, Liberal Arts, McCoy College of Business Administration and Science must have earned a 3.25 GPA on master’s course work.

o           Master’s students in the Colleges of Education and Liberal Arts must have earned a 3.50 GPA on master’s course work.

o           Ph.D. students must have a 3.5 GPA on doctoral course work.

 The online Graduate College Scholarships Application may be printed from http://www.gradcollege.txstate.edu/docs/College_Scholar.pdf.

SELECTION PROCESS
All scholarship application packets must be submitted to the Graduate College by the stated deadline.  The Graduate College will distribute them to the college representative from each of the academic colleges. The selection committee from each college will select the best-qualified applicants and make award recommendations to the Graduate Dean, who will make the final decision.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
A student who does not enroll the semester of the award must inform the Graduate College in writing regarding enrollment plans for future semesters. Failure to enroll may affect award eligibility for future semesters.

A student who drops a course and falls below the required 6 hours of enrollment must inform the Graduate College in writing.  The Graduate College will send notification of reimbursement procedures and eligibility for future semesters.

A student in his or her final semester must contact the Graduate College in writing to request approval from the Graduate Dean to enroll in fewer than the required 6 hours.