WVU annually awards approximately 1,500 graduate assistantships supported from state appropriations, federal funds, private grants and contracts. All graduate assistants are required to be full-time (nine hours or more) graduate students. Tuition and registration fees generally are remitted. Awards are made by degree programs or by the nonacademic unit where service is to be rendered. Applications should be made to the dean or director concerned or to the chairperson of the program in which the graduate work will be pursued.
WVU also awards about 200 fellowships and traineeships derived from federal agencies and from industries and private foundations. Fellowships are awarded on the basis of academic merit and require no service in return. Graduate fellows are expected to spend full time in pursuit of their studies, but may teach to the extent that the particular degree program requires. Fellows are required to be full-time graduate students.
