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Financial aid is available through both scholarships and assistantships. For the past several years, most graduate students in the Department have received assistantships. Tuition is waived for students holding assistantships.
Scholarships
A limited number of scholarships are available from the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Specifically, depending on funds and competitive requests from other departments in the College, the Department of Child and Family Development has Kilgore Scholarships, in the amount of $2,000, that can be awarded to incoming graduate students. No preference is given to whether the applicant is a master's or doctoral candidate, but to be eligible, students must meet the minimum qualifications for admission, have a GRE score of at least 1100 (verbal and math combined) and/or a grade point average for any previous degree work no less than 3.5.
Upon successful completion of the first year of study, Kilgore Scholarship recipients, upon application for renewal, may expect one additional year of support in the amount of $1,000. If a master's student receives a Kilgore Scholarship, application may be made again as a doctoral student. The scholarship can be renewed for one year in both degree programs, creating the potential for four years of support.
In addition, there are scholarships in the amount of $500 that are available on a competitive basis to either incoming or current graduate students (the Koelsche Scholarships and the Franklin Scholarships). All scholarship applications must be received prior to April 1, and awards are made during the spring term. For further scholarship information and application forms, please write to:
Graduate Coordinator
Department of Child and Family Development
College of Family and Consumer Sciences
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-3622
Complete listing of Family & Consumer Sciences Scholarships.
Assistantships
Some assistantships and fellowships are granted on a University-wide competitive basis. Information pertaining to these can be obtained from:
Graduate School
The University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602
Departmental Assistantships: Financial aid in the form of three types of assistantships is available through the department. Departmental laboratory assistantships, teaching assistantships, and research assistantships are available.
Level of Support: In accord with University pay schedules, first pay checks will be received the last working day of August. The current (2008) rates for 1/3 time (13 hours/week) masters and doctoral level assistantships is $10,193 and $11,017 respectively, for two semesters. Some 1/2 time assistantships are also available. Summer matriculation fees for students on 1/3 time and 1/2 time assistantships from August-May are waived. An application for a departmental assistantship can be found in the application materials in this book; it should be mailed to: Leslie Simons, Graduate Coordinator, Department of Child and Family Development, Dawson Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-3622, the following no later than January 1. Income from assistantships is subject to state and federal income taxes.
Applications for departmental assistantships are made to:
Graduate Coordinator
Department of Child and Family Development
123 Dawson Hall
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-3622
Because of the demand for assistantship support and the expectation that students finish their degree programs in a timely fashion, students in Master's degree programs who are awarded assistantships will be supported on a nine-month, one-third time assistantship for a maximum of two years. Doctoral students will ordinarily be similarly supported for three years.
Criteria and Procedures for Awarding Departmental Graduate Assistantships: The Department Head, upon the advice and recommendations of the Graduate Coordinator and other members of the faculty, awards assistantships to students. Assistantship awards are based on a combination of individual faculty requests for research or teaching assistance and the collective faculty's judgment as to the professional promise demonstrated by students through their previous professional activities, particularly those of the previous academic year. A limited number of assistantships are set aside for first-year students.
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Financial Aid 
