The Health Insurance/GA Tuition Eligibility Program
The Health Insurance/GA Tuition Eligibility Program provides graduate students who receive externally supported fellowships paid directly to them, as opposed to the sponsor giving a grant to the University for the fellowship, to receive the same considerations in terms of tuition remission and health care benefit packages as students who receive their fellowship funds through standard University procedures.
The following represent the conditions and procedures under which this is to occur:
- The fellowship received by the student must be a full fellowship from a bona fide sponsor (U.S., state or federal agencies, 501(c)(3) or other recognized foundation, or Fortune 500 company) obtained through a competitive selection process. Foreign fellowships will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis to determine true competitiveness and to confirm legitimacy. Foreign government support of foreign students does not qualify.
- The fellowship funding package must be equivalent financially to the following minimum standards:
- A Grade-12, half-time graduate assistantship for two semesters.
- Full-time graduate assistantship (GA) tuition rate (current federally approved, tuition remission rate). [This requirement is also met if the sponsor pays full tuition directly to the University.]
- University subsidy rate of health insurance package (either 80% of single or 70% of family rate).
- If a graduate student meets the above conditions, then the student is eligible for the GA tuition rate and for the graduate assistant health benefits package.
Health Insurance/GA Tuition Eligibility - application form