Students

Financial Assistance

During the admission process, your application is evaluated for possible merit assistance.  We award tuition waivers and scholarship to meritorious students.  If you are selected to receive such aid, you will be informed when the admission offer is made. 

Other opportunities exist at West Virginia University for assistance in financing your education. These include:

Financial Aid

WVU has a strong comprehensive financial aid program to help you finance your education. Although the cost to attend WVU is relatively low, more than half of our students qualify for financial aid awarded on the basis of need, merit, or a combination of the two. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) must be filed before March 1 of the year entering the program. Contact the Student Financial Aid Office at 304-293-5242 for more information or visit their website.

Graduate Teaching and/or Research Assistantships

Securing a graduate teaching and/or research assistantship (GA) is an outstanding way to finance your education.  These GA positions are offered all around campus and range from nine-month to twelve-month positiions.  They waive tuition and pay a stipend of approximately $1000/month in return for 20 hours per week of work.  GA positions are announced at studentjobs.wvu.edu.

Graduate Student Workers

Although the College of Business and Economics does not offer traditional graduate assistantships for its business masters programs, there are many opportunities for part-time positions within the College and elsewhere on campus. The individual academic departments and administrative units hire graduate student workers on an hourly wage basis. The initial screen for graduate student workers will be through the résumés of accepted students. These offers generally occur after students have arrived for the first session of the M.B.A. program. Once accepted, an information sheet will be filed with the Office of Graduate Programs in order to place students.

- More information for Student Workers

Fellowships

The W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowships for black graduate and professional students provide a stipend of $10,000 annually plus remission of tuition and mandatory fees for the academic year beginning August 16 and ending May 15. These fellowships are available to African-American graduate and professional students. Fellows are required to be full-time resident students for the entire calendar year. Qualified students may be nominated after admission to the program.

- More information for Fellowships