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Graduate Assistantships (Teaching, Research, Clinical and Administrative)

University of South Dakota, United States

Scholarship overview

A graduate assistantship is a paid position for a graduate student who teaches, researches or provides clinical or administrative service for the university. In return the student receives a stipend and a tuition reduction, plus a reduced tuition rate in the following summer without a work requirement.

Teaching and research assistantships are awarded by individual academic departments. USD states that assistantships are competitive and limited in number, and that they are the only scholarship or funding source for international graduate students.

Award Information

  • Regularly admitted graduate student in good academic standing.
  • Maintain a 3.00 GPA to retain the assistantship.
  • Registered for at least nine credit hours in fall and spring and one credit hour in any summer session.
  • Pass a criminal background check and sign an intellectual property and confidentiality agreement if selected.
  • Provisionally admitted students are not eligible until all provisions are met.
  • International students must meet admission requirements and any departmental requirements for the type of assistantship.
  • Monthly stipend.
  • Reduced (partially waived) tuition.
  • Reduced tuition in the following summer.
  • Positions: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Clinical Assistant, Graduate Administrative Assistant.

No deadline for the Graduate Assistantship application; students are encouraged to apply as soon as they are accepted to a program.

  1. Apply for admission to a USD graduate program.
  2. Some positions are offered with the admission letter, in which case no further application is needed.
  3. Otherwise submit the Graduate Assistantship (GA) application form to the Graduate School with a resume attached; it can be completed before admission.
  4. Apply within your own academic unit or to other academic or support units.

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How selection works

Departments decide teaching and research assistantships; hiring units review the GA application after admission.

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