UMaine Graduate School Scholarships and Assistantships

University of Maine, United States

Scholarship overview

The Graduate School awards competitive tuition scholarships through a department nomination process, and academic departments award teaching, research and graduate assistantships. Scholarships typically cover tuition only and do not require 20 hours of work per week.

Award Information

Students seeking nomination contact the graduate coordinator of their academic department, by November for the next academic year (assistantships).
Federal work-study graduate assistantships are open only to domestic students who completed the FAFSA; department-funded graduate assistantships are open to all graduate students.
Thurgood Marshall Scholarships favour students whose background or interests bring a unique perspective, with preference to groups traditionally underrepresented at UMaine.
Atlantic Provinces Graduate Scholarships: graduates of colleges and universities of the Atlantic Provinces and Quebec.

Graduate Trustee Tuition Scholarships: 15 to 18 scholarships paying a year's tuition; recipients register for nine credit hours each semester.
Thurgood Marshall Scholarships: 2 to 5 scholarships paying a year's tuition.
Atlantic Provinces Graduate Scholarships: three scholarships paying a year's tuition.
Chase Distinguished Research Assistantships: five annually, with the university minimum 9-month stipend and a tuition waiver for up to nine hours per semester.