Financial Assistance

   At Winthrop University, we believe higher education should not be a privilege reserved only for those who can afford it. The Office of Financial Aid is committed to helping Winthrop students find appropriate ways to finance their education.

   Fully admitted, degree-seeking applicants may be considered for a Graduate Assistantship, Graduate Incentive Scholars Award, Winthrop Graduate Scholarship or the Yu and Pai-Chih Beh Memorial Scholarship.

   Applicants for graduate assistantships should demonstrate skills and/or experience in the area of expertise for which they will have responsibility. Applicants for Graduate Incentive Scholars Awards and Winthrop Graduate Scholarships should demonstrate ability or promise of academic excellence.    Need of financial assistance may be considered for Winthrop Graduate Scholarships and the Yu and Pai-Chih Beh Scholarship. Non-degree students are ineligible to receive financial awards.

   Nominations from the academic units for Graduate Incentive Scholars and Beh Scholarships are forwarded to the Graduate Scholarship Committee. This committee, made up of the graduate directors from the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Visual and Performing Arts review and endorse candidates for these financial awards.  Graduate Assistantships and Winthrop Graduate Scholarships are determined by each academic unit.

   Students interested in applying for financial awards should submit the Application for Financial Awards to the graduate director of each academic unit by February 15.  The graduate director for each academic unit will coordinate the review process for financial awards and submit nominations to the Graduate Scholarship Committee for final review and endorsement.  The committee will submit the name of the award recipients to The Graduate School Office.  Award letters will be issued by The Graduate School Office in conjunction with the Financial Resource Center.

   The Graduate Directors will forward the Application of Graduate Assistantships and Winthrop Graduate Scholarships to the appropriate departments for consideration.  Nominations for those awards will be submitted by the academic departments to The Graduate School Office.

Graduate Assistantships

Graduate Associateships

Graduate Scholarships

Need-based Financial Assistance

Other Sources of Financial Assistance