Miami University

Family Studies & Social Work

Teaching Associateships are available for students with a master's degree who are working toward the Ph.D. degree. The stipend for the award is $18,270. By registering for at least 12 hours of summer courses, the student also receives a service-free $1,800 summer fellowship for support totaling $20,070 per year.
Graduate Assistantships are awarded each year to students working toward the master's degree. The stipend for the award is $14,391. By registering for at least 12 hours of summer courses, the student also receives a service-free $1,800 summer fellowship for support totaling $16,191 per year.
The above assistantships also provide a full tuition waiver and a partial fee waiver along with the stipends.
Grant-in-aid awards provide remission of the instructional fee and out-of-state tuition for one or more semesters. Grants are awarded by the Graduate School on the basis of need and excellence of scholarship.
Integrative Graduate Education & Research Training (IGERT) is a program funded by the National Science Foundation in the amount of $30,000 per year and represents a multi-disciplinary, dual-institution (Kent State & Miami University) program focused on Environmental Aquatic Resource Sensing (EARS). For more information please go to IGERT website or contact our departmental liaison, Dr. Hailiang Dong.
For more information on departmental requirements and graduate support, contact Dr. Elisabeth Widom, 513-529-5048 or via email at widome@muohio.edu.