Most students are employed as Graduate Teaching Assistants while earning their degrees. As a new Graduate Teaching Assistant, your transition into the role of educator will be facilitated by a lighter load in your first year, and by your participation in our graduate teaching seminar. Other Graduate Teaching Assistant duties include grading, working in the Mathematics Help Center, and assisting in multi-section courses.

During the 2008-09 academic year, stipends for Graduate Teaching Assistants who were fully English language qualified to teach ranged from $15,038 to $16,187. Stipends for Graduate Teaching Assistants who were not fully English language qualified to teach started at $14,030.

There are also assistantships available for the summer semester (June and July) with a stipend of approximately $2,500. The exact number of summer teaching assistantships varies from year to year.

All full time Graduate Teaching Assistants at the University of Oklahoma receive tuition waivers and medical insurance. The University provides waivers for seven credit-hours of resident tuition and up to nine credit-hours of non-resident tuition per semester. Note that the minimum full load for a graduate student is six credit-hours per semester.

Students are responsible for certain fees. A description of all fees and tuition can be found on the Office of the Bursar's page.

The department uses endowed funds in combination with funds from the College of Arts and Sciences and from the Graduate College to offer several Graduate Fellowships in Mathematics to top incoming students. Fellowship recipients receive a standard GTA offer together with a stipend add-on of $6,000 per annum. The department automatically nominates top candidates for fellowship support.

The Graduate College has several graduate recruitment fellowships available for students. The mathematics department automatically nominates top eligible candidates for these fellowships. In the past we have had success with the Wethington fellowships and with the Hoving fellowships.

The Mathematics Department makes awards and scholarships to graduate students based on their academic performance, teaching and citizenship. These include the Academic Achievement Award, the Harold Huneke Teaching Award, the Richard V. Andree Memorial Scholarship, the Harold Huneke Scholarship, and the John Clark Brixey Graduate Scholarship. Here is a list of recent awardees.

The Mathematics Graduate Students Association (with generous help from the Graduate College and from the College of Arts and Sciences) makes awards to graduate students based on their citizenship, and on their mentoring of undergraduate mathematics students. These include the MGSA Good Citizen Award and the MGSA Good Mentor Award.

In addition to Mathematics Department awards, there are scholarships available from the College of Arts and Sciences, and from the Graduate College. Students are strongly encouraged to apply for scholarships from the College of Arts and Sciences. Letters of recommendation from faculty members will need to be included with these applications, so be sure to check the deadlines and to start the application process early. Usually the application for an Arts and Sciences award must be submitted by early February.

The Graduate College has a good survey page on scholarships and travel grants. Applications for their Robberson awards are usually due by the 15th of the month. Letters of recommendation from faculty members will need to be included with these applications, so be sure to check the deadlines and to start the application process early.

Several faculty provide support for research assistants using funds from research grants. Research assistants usually participate in research-related projects under the supervision of the faculty member.

Students should keep an eye out for extramural fellowship opportunities.

• Check the websites of the various professional organizations (AWM, AMS, SIAM etc) and the major funding agencies (NSF, DoD, etc) for possible graduate fellowships.
• scholarships.fatomei.com has a database of various funding opportunities at the graduate level.
• PhDs.org maintains a Graduate Fellowships and Grants list.
• There is a good list of graduate fellowship opportunities for minorities atSUNY Buffalo.
• The Women in Math Project at the University of Oregon has an excellent Grants and Scholarships resource page.
• The AWM keeps a good list of fellowship and travel fund opportunities.
• Use online funding databases. The Community of Science funding page is a good place to start.