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Merit Awards
The Literature Department offers our strongest applicants fellowships
that include full tuition remission and a substantial (non-taxable) stipend
for each of two years of full-time study. We also offer some partial awards:
half tuition remission and half stipend. The competition for merit scholarships
is keen.
- Factors that contribute to selection for merit awards are an outstanding
undergraduate academic record, strong GRE scores—usually above
600 in the Verbal section—and other supporting evidence in the
student’s application. (Please note that MFA applicants are not
required to submit GRE scores for merit award consideration.) In order
to be considered for a merit award, students must submit their completed
application by February 1.
- Students who receive merit awards have the opportunity to work up
to twenty hours a week— for which they are compensated on an hourly
basis— as writing consultants
at AU’s Writing Center and/or as teaching
assistants to professors who are teaching General Education or undergraduate
literature survey courses.
- Students who receive partial merit awards may opt to be teaching
assistants or writing consultants for ten hours a week at the same hourly
compensation.
- Budget permitting, we also offer a few work-study assistantships
for up to ten hours a week—with the same compensation noted
above—for
students to serve as either teaching assistants or writing consultants.
These optional hours of work provide not only further financial assistance
but also valuable hands-on experience to students interested in teaching.
For further information on merit-based awards, please click on contact
information.
Need-Based Financial Aid
Employment
- Students are encouraged to contact the university’s Human
Resources Office (202-885-2639) for
information about part-time and full-time employment opportunities
on-campus. The university provides eligible faculty and
staff members with educational benefits including tuition remission
for graduate courses taken at American University. Note: You
must have completed four months of active full-time employment before
the last day of late registration for any given semester in order
to qualify for tuition remission benefits for that semester. The
maximum benefit available is eight credits per semester. In addition,
your total credits for courses taken under the program may not exceed
20 credits per academic year. For more information, please
contact the university’s Human Resources Office.
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