Financing Your Education
- Financial Aid: including scholarships, financial aid, tuition and fees, FAFSA, and more.
- Contact: Liz West, 509.358.7534, weste@wsu.edu, Academic Center 130.
Graduate Assistantships
Students awarded graduate assistantships are usually offered a stipend or a tuition waiver (depending on availability of funds) in return for a set amount of hours of work per week (10–20, depending on the award). As employees, they are expected to meet the obligations assigned, whether they involve teaching, research, or other support work.
Graduate assistantships are awarded each year based on merit, decided through a competition among new and returning graduate students who have either applied for, or been nominated for assistantship consideration. Students receiving assistantships usually have grade point averages at 3.5 or above and unusually strong references.
Prospective students may apply for assistantship at the same time as they apply for entrance into the graduate program. The assistantship application is a part of the hard copy or on-line application packet through the Graduate School. Application materials must be received by January 10 for assistantship consideration.
Scholarships
- Academic Scholarships
- American Institute of Architecture Students
- American Society of Interior Designers
- American Society of Landscape Architects
- Association for Faculty Women Founders Award (master's)
- CAHNRS (for Interior Design, Landscape Architecture)
- College of Engineering and Architecture (BS, MS, M.Arch)
- Harriet B. Rigas Award (doctoral)
- Interior Design Educator's Council (PDF)
- Jack Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship Program
- State of Washington
- WSU Alumni Association
- WSU Private Donor and Endowed Scholarship Fund
- Additional Scholarship Programs