Cost of Study

Tuition for 2007–08 is $3,157 per semester for in-state students and $6,317 per semester for nonresidents.

Graduate Teaching Assistants, however, have remission of tuition but pay $950 per Fall and Spring semesters for fees and, if teaching/taking courses in the summer, must pay $330 per summer session. There is an additional fee for required health insurance each semester. See, for GTAs,

www.grad.clemson.edu/Financial.html
and
www.grad.clemson.edu/financial/RelatedFinancial.php

Graduate Teaching Assistantships

The 9-month stipend for GTAships is highly competitive with all other similar programs. If there are courses for GTAs to teach in the summer (and there have been the last two summers), the stipend increases for Maymester and 6-week courses.

GTAs teach in Communication Studies (labs, in support of a large lecture course, or in an advanced course) and in English (in the Advanced Writing Program).Other arrangements for work can also be made in other departments and in labs.

Fellowships

All graduate school fellowships are competitive. The Director of RCID will nominate select students who have been accepted into the program for a fellowship. Since the fellowships are distributed across all colleges at Clemson University, there are very few awarded per college. They run from $10,000 to $15,000 presently and for the year. For fellowships, students must apply for acceptance, with all material submitted in time, to the GS and to the RCID program in December. The first GS decision for fellowships is January 15th, then February 15th, and March 15th. A student may hold both a GTAship and a fellowship simultaneously.