The Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ has made significant investments in graduate education to ensure grad Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵs thrive, providing a variety of funding opportunities to support their academic journey.
Assistantships and fellowships are competitive funding opportunities. Both options offer a chance to begin your professional experience while still prioritizing your education.
Find the assistantship and fellowship application forms on our Forms page.
UL Lafayette awards hundreds of assistantships every year to Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵs admitted to our master’s and doctoral programs. Assistantships—including teaching, research, and administrative assistantships—provide competitive stipends and tuition/fee waivers in exchange for up to 20 hours of work per week in the classroom, research labs, or offices on campus.
Learn more about graduate assistantships
UL Lafayette offers several competitive fellowships that are awarded on academic merit. Fellowships tend to be the most prestigious form of financial assistance available to graduate Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵs. At UL Lafayette, they typically include a tuition waiver, stipend, and some portion of time that is non-service in nature.
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An initiative of longtime President Ray P. Authement, the UL Lafayette Teacher Tuition Incentive Program assists currently employed K-12 teachers and administrators pursuing graduate studies by providing tuition scholarships to support part-time enrollment.
Learn more about the Teacher Tuition Incentive Program
In addition to waiving the application fee, the Graduate School offers tuition and fee waivers on a competitive basis to promising Master’s Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵs who, as an undergraduate Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, were participants of the .
Learn more about support for former McNair scholars
This program provides resident (in-state) tuition to new non-resident (out-of-state and international) graduate Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵs. To be eligible, you must be a new Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ admitted to a master's or doctoral program in regular admission status.
Learn more about this fellowship
The Graduate Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ Organization and the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ Government Association at UL Lafayette both offer grad Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵs funding to support research and travel.
Grad Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵs often turn to financial aid and loans to help pay for graduate study. Contact the Office of Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ Financial Aid at UL Lafayette for help with your federal loan application.