Prospective Graduate Students
Cost of English Graduate Degree
USF English offers comprehensive funding for MAs, MFAs, and PhDs.
USF English fully funds tuition costs of all full-time graduate students through multi-year graduate assistantships (students are responsible for fees). MA students are guaranteed their graduate assistantships for two years, MFA students are guaranteed three years, and PhD students are guaranteed four years, though they can apply for a fifth year of support.
- GAs take three classes per semester covered by tuition remission
- GAs teach two classes (or the equivalent) per semester paid by the stipend
The total compensation for new GAs effective Fall 2024 is broken down below:
|
Level |
Stipend for New GAs |
Tuition Remission |
Health Insurance Subsidy |
|---|---|---|---|
|
MA/MFA |
$15,304 |
Waiver for 100% of roughly $15,000 in tuition for nine graduate credits* |
$2,909 of $3,518 premium will be covered for fall and spring semesters |
|
PhD |
$21,624 |
Waiver for 100% of roughly $15,000 in tuition for nine graduate credits* |
$2,909 of $3,518 premium will be covered for fall and spring semesters |
*Tuition remission does NOT include fees (about $800 semesterly) that must be paid by the ninth week of the semester for enrollment in nine graduate credits.
USF English graduate students are eligible for additional funding and scholarships.
USF English students are eligible for . Graduate students in English Studies at USF may be eligible for competitive funding from several sources to offset their conference travel, including the Department of English, the First-Year Composition Program, and the university's . We offer many internal financial scholarships every year, recognizing students in creative writing, literary studies, and rhetoric and composition.