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Doctoral students admitted to the College of Business are eligible for financial assistance. Students receiving financial assistance are required to enroll for at least 9 hours in each semester. Out-of-state tuition waivers and matriculation waivers are awarded for at least 9 hours each semester to assistantship holders provided they are available.

Within enrollment, space and fiscal limitations, financial assistance may be offered to international students. International students applying for financial assistance must submit an acceptable score on the Test of Spoken English (TSE) or Internet-based TOEFL (iBT) prior to an assignment as a teaching assistant. Applicants are encouraged to submit their TSE score with their application for financial assistance. Any financial assistance award that is made prior to receiving an acceptable TSE score will be for a maximum of two semesters. Further assistance beyond two semesters will be contingent on meeting the TSE requirement and maintaining good academic performance in the program.

In general, a student cannot receive more than one internal (within the University) fellowship. If multiple internal fellowship awards are received, the student must accept only one of the fellowships. This restriction does not apply to awards not affiliated with the University since these awards may be held in addition to any internal awards.

A doctoral student must be in good academic standing at the time the financial assistance begins. If deterioration in academic performance occurs after the financial assistance begins, the Doctoral Retentions Committee will make recommendations to the associate dean concerning future awards of financial assistance and retention in the program.

Standard Assistantship/Fellowship Awards

The various possible combinations of College of Business financial assistance awards are described below, with the tuition waivers included to reflect the intent to provide tuition waivers as an integral part of all assistantship awards. Competitive financial awards from outside the College are described later in this section.

Assistantships

• The assistantship portion of the award represents the annual cash income.
• Assistantships may be one of three types:
• GA: Graduate assistant – works with professors on teaching and research
  
  
• TA: Teaching assistant – teaches and/or assists in teaching courses. The TA assignment is generally in the second year and can be in any one of the three semesters at the discretion of the Department Chair.

Tuition Waivers

• Full funding of tuition waivers is contingent upon legislative appropriation.
• Out-of-State tuition waivers beyond the first year are subject to the availability of sufficient budget allocations from the University. United States residents are expected to attain Florida residency by their second year.
• IMPORTANT NOTE: Tuition waivers cover the cost of most academic fees but do not include non-academic charges such as athletic fees, health fees, building fees, etc. A doctoral student receiving partial tuition waivers will be required to pay non-academic fees of approximately $60 per credit hour for a Florida resident or resident alien and approximately $90 per credit hour for a non-Florida resident or international student. For 09-10 academic year, these fees amounted to $536.42 for in-state students and $806.96 for out-of-state.

The tables below reflect tuition waivers amounts based on nine hours registration each term and reflect the 2009-2010 tuition rates.

Table II
Standard Assistantship/Fellowship Award (Non-Florida Resident)

Table III
Standard Preliminary Year Awards*