Prospective Graduate Students
Cost of English Graduate Degree
USF English offers comprehensive funding for MAs, MFAs, and PhDs.
USF English fully funds tuition costs of all full-time graduate students through multi-year teaching assistantships (students are responsible for fees). MA students are guaranteed their teaching assistantships for two years, MFA students are guaranteed three years, and PhD students are guaranteed four years, though they can apply for a fifth year of support. The total compensation for new TAs during the 2020-2021 academic year is broken down below:
|
Level |
Stipend for New TAs |
Tuition Remission |
Health Insurance Subsidy |
Total Compensation for AY 20/21 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
MA/MFA |
$13,084 |
Waiver for 100% of roughly $15,000 in tuition for nine graduate credits* |
95% of the $2915 premium that covers fall and spring semesters |
Almost $31,000 |
|
PhD |
$17,832 |
Waiver for 100% of roughly $15,000 in tuition for nine graduate credits* |
95% of the $2915 premium that covers fall and spring semesters |
Almost $36,000 |
*Tuition remission does NOT include $788.68 in fees per semester that must be paid by the ninth week of the semester for enrollment in nine graduate credits.
An assistantship guarantees graduate students valuable experience teaching under the supervision of the Director of First-Year Composition in an award-winning writing program. New teaching assistants in USF English receive excellent teacher training that begins with a two-week orientation. The orientation is followed by a semester-long teaching seminar and formal support from graduate student colleagues. Teaching assistants are assigned to teach two courses per semester or the equivalent. USF English offers a broad range of teaching, administrative, and research opportunities that count as teaching assignments.
USF English graduate students are eligible for additional funding and awards.
USF English students are eligible for fellowships and scholarships. Our students have recently won the USF's Presidential Doctoral Fellowship, the Dissertation Completion Fellowship, and the McKnight Doctoral Fellowship. Graduate students in English Studies at USF are also eligible for competitive funding from several sources to offset their conference travel, including the Department of English, the First-Year Composition Program, and the university's student government. We offer many internal financial awards every year, recognizing creative writing, literary studies, and rhetoric and composition scholarship.