Undergraduate
Costs and Financial Aid
Graduate Assistantships
The types of assistantships listed below are available through the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation for students admitted to graduate degree programs on the Bloomington campus. Graduate students can apply for these assistantships by visiting this online application. Most assistantships are awarded in the spring semester of each academic year for use toward the following year's expenses. Financial support is not guaranteed with admission to a graduate program, but the School of HPER has an excellent record of supporting graduate students. In most cases, assistantships that are awarded to masters students are granted for only one year.
Associate Instructor: A graduate student who is employed as a teacher and engages in activities as a teacher. Teaching consists of the activities of teaching, lecturing, tutoring, instructing, laboratory assisting in an instructional role, and the like in the activity of imparting knowledge, providing the employee has responsibility for assigning grades for at least a portion of a course and has direct contact with students.
Graduate Assistant: A graduate student who, in an academic department or in an administrative office, assists in work associated with the duties of faculty members or administrators, such as library searches, curricular development, or paper grading, and who is not an Associate Instructor, Research Assistant, Student Counselor, or Faculty Assistant.
Research Assistant: A graduate student who is engaged in or assists with original, professional-level research.
Handbook for Student Academic Appointees
The IUB Handbook for Student Academic Appointees is available for download from the Office of Academic Affairs & Dean of the Faculties Web site.
Stipends
This stipend scale is based on working 20 hours per week over the 10-month school year. Stipends earned by graduate assistants are taxable. Monies received in the form of fellowships and fee scholarships may be taxable. Students must check with the Internal Revenue Service.
| 2006-2007 Stipend | |
|---|---|
| Master's | $10,600 |
| Doctoral 1st Year | $11,200 |
| Doctoral 2nd Year | $11,700 |
| Doctoral 3rd Year | $12,100 |
Fee Remission
Awards can be up to 30 credit hours per academic year. Fee remissions do not cover fees that are not remittable, mandatory fees, course-related fees or audit hours.
Graduate Work-Study
All students applying for work-study must fill out the FAFSA form.
- Graduate students appointees are partially funded by the Federal Graduate Work-Study Program.
- The graduate student is approved by the Office of Student Financial Assistance.
- This funding provides a substantial savings to the department.
- Graduate student appointees are accorded all the same rights and conditions of work and salary as other academic graduate student appointees in the department or school.
Chancellor's Fellowships
The fellowships are for incoming students intending to earn a doctorate. Chancellor's Fellows may not hold an assistantship or job during the time when classes are offered during the academic year of the full-time fellowship, although with prior approval other fellowships may be held during the year.
