Costs & Financial Aid

The School of Journalism offers competitive funding packages to both master’s degree and doctoral students. The school awards about $180,000 each year in merit-based fellowships to our master’s students and offers student assistantships that total about $50,000 per year.

Master’s degree assistantships do not include tuition waivers, but they do pay well – $15 per hour for 10 hours of work per week, which equals $2,500 per semester. Assistantships include work as faculty assistants (teaching or research), Web writers, school videographers, photographers or designers, or as library assistants in the Weil Journalism Library.

Each year, the school awards about $135,000 in merit-based fellowships to doctoral students and offers student assistantships that total about $135,000 per year. Doctoral-level assistantships are 20 hours per week and come with tuition waivers as well as health insurance. Student assistantships include work as faculty assistants (teaching or research) or as instructors of record when appropriate.

In addition to fellowship and assistantship support, the school offers master’s degree students up to $500 to travel to professional or academic conferences during their time as graduate students. Doctoral students are given up to $2,000 each year to support travel to present research at national and international academic conferences. The school also awards doctoral students up to $1,000 in grant funding to support their own research.