Program pays for additional PhD researchers

The Research (Tuition) Incentive Assistantship is designed to support new PhD graduate assistantships through the return of revenue to research grant-funded investigators and their departments.

The department of a principal investigator who is awarded a research grant that pays the cost of full-time in-state tuition for graduate research assistant(s) will receive a return of 1.5 times the university’s base tuition rate from the university, which will be used to cover the cost of an assistantship for additional PhD student(s). Read more here.

Tonia Austin-Brown at the Graduate School has been assigned as the contact person for the VIP program. Feel free to contact her via

email

or call 706-542-6269 if you have any questions.