Graduate Assistantships

Teaching Assistantships and Research Assistantships are available to full-time graduate students. For further information, visit the website of individual Departments.

Graduate assistants can be paid for the equivalent of a maximum of 20 hours per week while school is in session. Students with assistantships must be registered for at least nine credits during the fall and spring semesters (audited classes do not count towards registration requirements).

Students who have a 10 – 20 hour per week research or teaching assistantship during the summer semester may apply for a summer tuition scholarship. To be eligible for the summer tuition scholarship, students must have been enrolled at UAF full-time in the preceding fall and spring semesters and 6 research (698 - project research) or thesis (699 - thesis research) credits during the current summer semester.

Students who have a 21 – 40 hour per week research or teaching assistantship during the summer semester are in taxable status by default and have no summer registration requirements

Teaching assistantships include a tuition payment by the university:

• For no more than 10 credits if the workload is 15 to 20 hours per week.
• For no more than 5 credits if the workload is 10 to 14 hours per week.
• If the assistantship appointment begins on or before the first day of instruction and ends on or after the last day of final examinations for that semester (16 or more weeks). 4/15/93.

Research Assistantships include a tuition payment by grants/contracts:

• For no more than 10 credits if the workload is 15 to 20 hours per week.
• For no more than 5 credits if the workload is 10 to 14 hours per week.
• If the assistantship appointment begins on or before the first day of instruction and ends on or after the last day of final examinations for that semester (16 or more weeks). 4/15/93.

Graduate Assistants must be registered full-time (nine credits consisting of a minimum of three graduate credits; audited classes do not count towards registration requirements).

* No tuition will be included if the workload is less than 10 hours per week.

For further information on Graduate Assistantships, please visit Graduate Assistantships under Financial Aid in the Online Catalog.

Minimum Rate of Pay for Graduate Assistantships (updated 06/10/08) :

Note: At this time these rates apply only to Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Graduate School and Thesis Completion Fellowship recipients (GFs). For more information on rates for Research Assistants (RAs) please contact individual departments.