Financial Aid
There is no application process for financial aid. However, qualified students interested in being considered for an Advanced Opportunity Fellowship should check the appropriate box.
All MFA students receive tuition remissions (ie, free tuition), teaching assistantships, health insurance and other financial support. Our support package for students (other than the Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Poetry; see below for that) is as follows:
- Teaching Assistantships: In each semester of their first year, students teach one section of English 203: Beginning Creative Writing Workshop. In each semester of their second year, students teach one section of English 100: Freshman Composition. The teaching assistantships provide an annual stipend of approximately $10,300 the first year and $10,800 the second year. Adjustments are made in the first year for persons with prior college teaching experience. Teaching Assistants receive teacher training and support for both these courses.
- Tuition Remission and Other Benefits: MFA students receive free tuition and generous health benefits.
- Summer Prize Scholarships: Each student receives a $3,000 Martha Meier Renk, Dorothy D. Bailey or Anastasia C. ("Tess") Hoffmann Prize Scholarship at the end of the first year in residence .
Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellowship In Poetry
One poet will be awarded a Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Poetry upon admission to the program. During each semester of the first year, the Renk Fellow will receive the same teaching assistantship (ie, teaching English 203), tuition remission and generous health benefits as the other MFAs in Poetry. During the Renk Fellow's second year, he or she will receive, in lieu of a teaching assistantship, a stipend of approximately $15,000, an expense account of $1,500, tuition remission and the same generous health benefits as the other MFA students. Renk Fellows do not receive summer prize scholarships. There is no application procedure for the Renk Fellowship.