Financial Assistance
For students in our department, there are many scholarships and stipends available, along with co-op, intern and work-study programs available to undergraduate and graduate students. Below we list some scholarships, fellowships, and other assistance available to students in our department.
Department:
Undergraduate:
The Stinson Scholarship Program provides $10,000 scholarships to highly qualified students in our department, and the department also provides a large number of smaller scholarships.
Graduate
The Department of Nuclear Engineering offers financial assistance in the form of non-teaching assistantships, research assistantships, fellowships, and scholarships to incoming graduate students. Assistantships are administered by the department, as are some fellowships.
Assitantships
Assistantships include a stipend (e.g. salary or scholarship to cover health insurance premium) and may include tuition and fees. Available funding is determined each semester by the department funding for Graduate Assistants Non Teaching (GANTS) and the budget of research contracts for Graduate Assistant Research (GARs). Standard assistantship offers to new domestic students commit to paying stipend and tuition and fees for two regular semesters (9 months). There is no commitment for summer. Standard assistantship offers to new international students commit to paying stipends and tuition and fees for one full year (12 months).Students are encouraged to find advisors with research projects that can pay their assistantships as GARs during the first semester.
Research Assistantships
Some research assistantships are offered by the faculty based on the student’s background, research interests, and their match to the faculty’s research projects. Our faculty members are actively involved in a variety of exciting research projects and high-achieving students are often offered research assistantships by the faculty at the time of admission. Other students are advised to contact the faculty in their area of interest for consideration for research assistantships.
Fellowships
In addition, some fellowships are administered by the college and university. Your application for admission automatically results in consideration for all assistantships and fellowships administered by the department, college, and university. Well-qualified students are also encouraged to apply for fellowships from outside organizations (e.g. the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Department of Homeland Security, and others).Almost all of our graduate students receive some sort of financial support.
You may also contact the Financial Aid Office:
Director of Student Financial Aid
Texas A&M University
2nd Floor, The Pavilion
College Station, TX 77843-1252
http://financialaid.tamu.edu
College:
Dwight Look College of Engineering Scholarships
University:
Texas A&M Department of Student Financial Aid
Texas A&M Scholarships
Office of Honors Programs and Academic Scholarships
Other:
Undergraduate:
The American Nuclear Society (ANS) awards scholarships to students who have completed two or more years in nuclear engineering or in radiological health engineering. More information about ANS scholarships
The South Texas Chapter of the Health Physics Society awards scholarships to undergraduate students.
National Academy for Nuclear Training (NANT) awards scholarships to students currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering or in health physics radiological health engineering. More information about NANT scholarships.
Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship program awards scholarships to students who are currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering or in radiological health engineering. More information about DOE scholarships.
Graduate:
The American Nuclear Society (ANS) awards scholarships to full time graduate students in a program leading to an advanced degree in nuclear science, nuclear engineering, or a nuclear-related field. More information about ANS scholarships
NASA/Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellowships. More information about Space Grant scholarships.
The Department of Energy (DOE) awards Graduate Fellowships in Nuclear Engineering and Health Physics.
DOE Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Fellowship Program
Opportunities to participate in fellowships for graduate work in fields related to the management of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive wastes; application is usually made before or during the first year of graduate school.DOD National Defense Science and Engineering graduate fellowship
The NDSEG Fellowships are intended for students who are at or near the beginning or their graduate study for a Ph.D. in science or engineering.The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships offers three-year graduate research fellowships in science, mathematics and engineering. More information about NSF graduate fellowships.
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
Through its program of Diversity Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Engineering grad students who are considering becoming professors are eligible to apply.GEM Fellowships
The GEM Fellowship programs are designed to offer opportunities for underrepresented minority students to obtain MS degrees in engineering and Ph.D. degrees in engineering and the natural and physical sciences through a program of paid summer internships and graduate financial assistance.The South Texas Chapter of the Health Physics Society awards scholarships to graduate students.
The Department of Energy awards Graduate Fellowships in Computational Sciences.
The Department of Energy awards Graduate Fellowships in Naval Nuclear Propulsion.