Financial Information

The Financial Information web pages provide information about financial issues relevant to graduate education at Emory.  Below you will find general information about stipends and tuition scholarships as well as information about how your stipend will be paid to you, how to obtain conference travel funds, and how your merit award affects your tax liability and availability for employment.

On the sidebar to the left, you will find links to pages covering the following topics: tuition and academic fees; emergency loans; grants and other external funding opportunities; the student loan process; and special fellowships offered at Emory.

If you have questions regarding the information on this page or have trouble finding the information you need, please call the Graduate School at 404-727-6028.

Guidelines to:
Continuing Student Fellowships 2008-2009 Academic Year
(The page at this link contains the guidelines for applying to a number of fellowships: Brown Southern Studies; Dean's Teaching Fellowships, Mellon Foundation Graduate Teaching Fellowships, Scholarly Inquiry and Research at Emory; and Women's Club Memorial Award.)

Professional Development Support funds: go to the Forms page for the policy and the application forms.

Graduate School Stipend and Tuition Scholarships
Types of Support
Tuition Scholarships
Stipends
Student Support and Tax Liability
Merit Awards and Employment Restrictions

Disbursement of Stipends
Electronic Direct Depost
Monthly Stipend Payments by Department

Research and Conference Travel Funding
Professional Development Support Funds

Graduate School Stipends and Tuition Scholarships

Types of Support
The Graduate School generally awards two types of support to students: tuition scholarships and stipends.  In addition, the Graduate School awards several special fellowships to outstanding first year students.  For more information about these special fellowships, please refer to the Special Fellowships page.

Tuition Scholarships
Tuition scholarships may be partial or full tuition.  These scholarships are awards for tuition credits only.  They are not cash and cannot be awarded as stipend dollars.

Students cannot be required to work for tuition scholarships unless this work is required of all students in the department as part of the degree requirements.

Stipends
Stipends are awarded for either nine or twelve months, depending on the program the student is enrolled in (see list below).

The special Graduate School fellowships (Arts and Sciences, Emory Graduate Diversity Fellowship, and Woodruff) receive twelve monthly payments regardless of the program they are enrolled in.

Students receiving graduate school stipends may be required to work without additional compensation if this work is required of all students in the program as part of the degree requirements.

Student Support and Tax Liability
Unless students are exempt under Internal Revenue Code (IRS) Section 117, scholarships, fellowships, grants, stipends and awards are generally considered taxable income.  Students are required to report these amounts on federal and state income tax returns and are advised to consult tax advisers or the IRS and state revenue authorities for additional information.

Merit Awards and Employment Restrictions
The terms of a merit award (a fellowship carrying a stipend) made by the graduate school may prevent a graduate student from gaining employment.  A student who receives a stipend should consult with his/her director of graduate studies and obtain the permission of the Dean of the Graduate School before accepting employment concurrently with the receipt of a merit award.

Disbursement of Stipend Payments

Electronic Direct Deposit
Stipends are paid in monthly installements on the last working day of each month. 

In order to receive funds, all students on stipend must enroll in direct deposit.

Several days before funds are deposited into accounts, the University will send email notification that payment has been processed.  The email contains a link to an electronic copy of the check stub.  Please note that funds will be deposited not on the day the email notification is sent but on the final working day of the month.

Monthly Stipend Payments by Program

Research and Conference Travel Funding

Professional Development Support Funds
The Graduate School makes available funds to support specific categories of graduate student professional development.  These funds are awarded on the basis of the merit of the proposed activity and the importance of the activity to the student’s program of study.  Awards are made in three funding categories: (1) conference participation, (2) supplementary training not available at Emory, including language acquisition, and (3) research.  The general policy for the funds is described here, and information about applying for funds can be found on the Forms page.