OFFICE SPACE FINANCIAL SUPPORT

The College of Social Work provides funding to students for the first three calendar years of their education (from the beginning of the fall semester of the first year through the end of the summer semester of the third year). The College offers a tuition matriculation waiver for up to twelve credit hours of students’ tuition in the fall and spring semesters and nine hours in the summer and provides an assistantship with a stipend of $21,450 annually, for the 2023–2024 academic year. Continued funding of the stipend at the offer level is contingent upon University allocations, satisfactory student performance, and maintenance of full-time enrollment. The College aids students in obtaining scholarships, fellowships, and dissertation funding. After successful completion of their teaching seminar and assistantships, students may be eligible to teach independently and can be hired to teach courses while they finish their dissertation work.

Note: Domestic out-of-state students will be responsible for obtaining Florida residency after the first year of the program. Out-of-state tuition will be reimbursed for the first year only.

International students are not eligible for in-state status and will receive out-ofstate tuition reimbursement for the first three years of their program. Students are responsible for verifying that the correct tuition waiver amount has been disbursed each semester by accessing “My Account Statement” in myFSU Student Center.

Each semester students will receive an email from the doctoral program manager asking to sign a graduate waiver receipt form. This form states the contingencies described previously as a contract between the student and the College of Social Work. Failure to sign this waiver will result in the tuition waiver and stipend for the semester in question, and could jeopardize the student’s standing in the program. Please see the “Research and Teaching Assistantship” section of this handbook for additional information.