Scholarships & Aid
Assistantships & Residency
Your offer of admission to WSU and the Chemistry Department includes financial support in the form of an assistantship valued at approximately $33,000 per year. When you are supported on an assistantship you take home about $1,500 per month and we pay your tuition and health insurance!
You will be expected to become a resident of the State of Washington as soon as you are eligible (after one year).
You will have financial support throughout the summers with satisfactory academic progress.
During your first year you will be supported on a teaching assistantship which involves teaching two laboratory sections per week, class preparation and grading, and two hours of office time for student consultation. By the end of your first year you will have settled into a research group and are often supported as a research assistant.
Scholarships
The WSU Chemistry Department has a number of scholarships designated specifically for graduate students. We awarded almost $20,000 in academic scholarships to our current students in the 2001/2002 year. For the past two years we have awarded two $3,000 Abelson scholarships from the College of Sciences to the best applicants to our program. This award is renewable for a second year, bringing the total value to $6,000. The Edward Wagner scholarship is awarded to one of our utstanding graduate students who has passed pre-lims and is nearing graduation.
List of Departmental Scholarships
Life in Pullman
Pullman is located in the heart of the Palouse, an area of exceptional beauty and abounding recreational activities.
The Pullman/Moscow area also hosts a number of international cultural events, including the National Lentil Festival,
and the Lionel Hamption Jazz Festival.
