Financial Support & Scholarships
Graduate Program Assistantships
The Department of Biology offers several Teaching Assistantships for MS and PhD students
on a competitive basis.
The MS Teaching Assistantship includes a full tuition award, a 9-month stipend of
$16,500, and 75% of student health insurance at TCU. The award is renewable for a
second year, based on satisfactory performance in the first. The work load is no more
than 20 hours per week during the 9-month academic year, and most students are assigned
to teach labs in either Introductory Biology I & II (BIOL 10501/10511) or Contemporary
Issues in Biology (BIOL 10003).
In addition, MS students may apply for a competitive internal award, the Adkins Fellowship,
to provide $3,600 in summer stipend in support of their thesis research between the
first and second year.
For Ph.D. students, the Department of Biology also offers a small number of Teaching
Assistantships (full tuition award, a 12-month stipend of $20,000, and 75% of student
health insurance at TCU) and one Green Fellowship that is awarded on a competitive
base for a single year (full tuition award, a 12-month stipend of $20,000 with no
teaching responsibilities, 75% of student health insurance at TCU).
The Department also provides up to $1,300 of support for MS and PhD students to attend
a scientific meeting and present their research.