Application Information
In addtion to applying to the Graduate School, applicants complete a departmental application form. The form is a pdf file into which you can directly enter your information. When you have completed the form, print it out and mail it to Ms. Diane Adams at the address below. Students are admitted once a year only in the fall semester. The application deadline is always December 15th of any given year for entrance the following fall.
Ms. Diane Adams
Graduate Program Assistant
123 Dawson Hall
Department of Child and Family Development
Athens, GA 30602-2622
Telephone (706) 542-4844.
To expedite the application process, please send a photocopy of your transcripts directly to Ms. Diane Adams at the above address.
Official transcripts should be sent from your registrar to:
Graduate Admissions
University of Georgia
320 E. Clayton St., Suite 400
Athens, Georgia 30602-4401
For information regarding admission and forms to the UGA Graduate School, please visit their website at http://www.uga.edu/gradschool/admissions/requirements.html.
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, and 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
Or, for a complete listing of Family & Consumer Sciences Scholarships, click here.
Assistantships
Some assistantships and fellowships are granted on a University-wide competitive basis. Information pertaining to these can be obtained from here or by writing to:
Graduate School
320 E. Clayton Street, Suite 400
The University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602
Departmental Assistantships: Financial aid in the form of three types of assistantships are 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 (2009) rates for 1/3 time (13 hours/week) masters and doctoral level assistantships is $10,300 and $12,500 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.
Applications for departmental assistantships should be sent no later than January 1 to:
Dr. Stephanie Burwell
FSC I, House A, Room 205 Athens, GA 30602
Email: sburwell@uga.edu
706-542-4897
Income from assistantships is subject to state and federal income taxes.
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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