Funding Options
The Graduate School provides funding information from a variety of sources.
One way to decrease your tuition expenses is to file for North Carolina residency if you are from out of state.
In addition to teaching fellowships and assistantships, the Curriculum is able to offer one merit-based research assistantship to an incoming student.
Another funding opportunities that may be well suited to comparative literature students are the Foreign Languages Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships. FLAS offers a unique opportunity for funding top graduate students who require training in foreign languages. Through the five Area Studies National Resource Centers on campus (Latin American, Slavic/East European, European, South Asian, and International) grants are offered to graduate students during the academic year or for the summer. The fellowship covers full tuition (10,000/year or 3,600/summer) plus a stipend ($11,000/year or 2,400/summer) as well as health insurance for academic year awardees.
Applications for FLAS awards are due Feb 1st and announcements will be made soon there after. Application forms, language evaluation forms, and additional information on the application process and the various FLAS programs can be gained from the websites of the relevant Area Studies Center.
The Graduate School is pleased to announce a new fellowship designed to assist doctoral students in making rapid progress with their doctoral dissertations and to support students who would like to explore and pursue interdisciplinary research.
The first award of fellowships will be for next spring, 2008, and will be an initial experiment to explore how such a fellowship might best work in support of doctoral students. Therefore, this first award of fellowships will be smaller and more limited in scope as the Graduate School and the faculty members guiding this effort learn more about how we might best implement this program. The Graduate School will competitively award a limited number of semester-long doctoral, non-service fellowships that include a stipend of $7,200, tuition, and health insurance beginning in spring semester, 2008. If you have questions or comments about this fellowship, please contact Sandra Hoeflich, 962-6323, sandra@unc.edu.
University Center for International Studies www.unc.edu/depts/ucis
Institute of Latin American Studies www.unc.edu/depts/ilas
Center for Slavic and East European Studies www.unc.edu/depts/slavic
Center for European Studies www.unc.edu/depts/europe
North Carolina Center for South Asian Studies www.ncsu.edu/tsac