To make higher education more affordable, the University Provost Fellowship is available for US students for the academic year 2020-2021.
The program is the largest, most flexible, and most diverse fellowship offered by West Virginia University in the United States.
Fellowship will be awarded to incoming PhD or students who are seeking a terminal graduate degree in the College of Creative Arts.
West Virginia University is a public land-grant, space-grant, research-intensive university in the United States. WVU has a family of distinctive campuses, united by a single mission to provide a quality and affordable education.
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Who May Eligible
- Participants must be US citizens or permanent residents.
- Candidates must be incoming (Fall 2020) graduate students; students admitted in the spring 2020 and summer 2020 terms are also eligible.
- Students must complete an application for on-campus, fall 2020 admission to a WVU PhD award program or to a terminal graduate degree program in the College of Creative Arts at the time the fellowship nomination is submitted.
- Aspirants must have a minimum GPA of 3.2 for undergraduate or 3.5 for graduate coursework.
How to Apply
Nominations must be submitted by an academic program; students cannot apply for this fellowship.
Nominators should visit the Fellowship Nomination Instructions page for instructions on how to nominate students for this fellowship.
Benefits
- With the University Provost Fellowship, applicants will receive an annual stipend of $17,000, waiver of University tuition (fall and spring), a College tuition scholarship, and graduate student health insurance coverage.
- Awards are paid over a 9-month period during which time students must be enrolled full-time.
- Awards provide up to three years of funding.
- Students awarded this fellowship will be provided with a summer University tuition waiver, by request only.
Application Deadline: February 9, 2020, by 11:59 p.m.
