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Financial Aid / Funding

Graduate Assistantships

Other than self-funded students, PhD in Business Administration students are funded with 12-month graduate assistantships for the first four years at $40,000 per year (or to the end of the semester in which they graduate if earlier), and with a 9-month assistantship at $32,000 in their fifth year (this assistantship ends at the close of the spring semester). Students are assigned research assistantships for years 1-2, and teaching assistantships for years 3-5, where each assistantship requires roughly 20-hours of work per week. For research assistantships, students help faculty with their research while learning how research can and should be conducted. For teaching assistantships, students teach two course sections per academic year, for which students receive considerable help from those who have taught the courses earlier (syllabi, materials, assignments, etc.). All of this comes together so that you 鈥渉it the ground running鈥� at your first post-graduation position with a strong research pipeline as well as a solid teaching foundation.  

University Fellowships

The university has several fellowships that newly admitted students can be nominated for by their departments.

University Graduate Fellowship- For outstanding, new students enrolling in a doctoral program. Students must not have taken or be taking classes at USF, degree or non-degree seeking, when nominated for this award.

Presidential Doctoral Fellowship- For new doctoral students with exceptional academic credentials (ex. evidence of experience in the field; research productivity, awards, honors; and professional contributions and achievements to the field). Students must not have taken or be taking classes at USF, degree or non-degree seeking when nominated for this award.

Delores Auzenne Fellowship- For talented new domestic doctoral students who contribute diversity in USF graduate programs. Students should represent individuals who are historically underrepresented in specific disciplines along the dimensions of ethnicity and gender. Student must be a new, incoming doctoral student. A master's student from USF who is entering the doctoral program may be considered for this award.

McKnight Fellowships

The State of 51在线's McKnight Doctoral Fellowships are for African American or Hispanic US citizens who hold a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university. Up to 50 McKnight Fellowships are granted each year to students pursuing doctoral degrees in eligible fields of study at one of nine participating institutions in 51在线. The 51在线 is one of the participating institutions and business is one of the eligible fields of study. Interest students apply directly to the 51在线 Education Fund. For more information, please reference the .

Gaiennie Fund

Rene 鈥淏ud鈥� Gaiennie served as a senior executive for the Singer Corporation and later as a Distinguished Lecturer in Management Policy in the Muma College of Business at the 51在线.  He left a testamentary gift to the college with the purpose of promoting, developing and disseminating the research of USF Muma College of Business doctoral students. The Gaiennie Endowment funds the following doctoral student research related costs and travel funding.

Dissertation research grants to a maximum of $5,000 per dissertation are available to students who have been admitted to candidacy and are students in residence at USF.  Each proposal will be reviewed by the Muma College Doctoral Program Committee.  External reviews may be solicited to help the committee in its deliberations. The Muma College Doctoral Program Committee is solely responsible for the final determination of awards.

Travel funding

• First year doctoral students will be provided up to $1000 to attend a premier conference or conference/workshop approved by the school doctoral program coordinator. 
• $1000 annually is available to attend general and specialty conferences that have been pre-approved by the school鈥檚 representative on the Muma College Doctoral Program Committee, and where the student is presenting a paper submitted under a competitive review process. 
• In addition to the $1000 provided to attend and present a competitively reviewed paper at a conference approved by the student鈥檚 doctoral program coordinator, students may be eligible for $1,300 in travel funding to present a competitively reviewed paper at a premier conference in their discipline. Such funding to present at a premier conference is also available to fifth year doctoral students. Additional travel funding may be considered for international premier conferences or consortiums, which will be evaluated by the Muma College Doctoral Program Committee on a case-by-case basis. Note that the funding for the premier conference is separate from the $1000 amount available for a non-premier conference, with the intent to encourage and fund two separate presentations.
• Doctoral students submitting a paper to a conference without a faculty co-author can request reimbursement of submission fees. The request is limited to one request per student per year. The school鈥檚 coordinator must conduct a quality check on the submission prior to signing off on the Gaiennie request form.
• A one-time allotment of $1,300 per student for travel to a conference when searching for a job is available.
• Annually, each concentration will be allowed to nominate one doctoral student to attend a premier doctoral consortium for which the student will receive up to $1,300 in travel funding.

No funding will be provided to attend any conferences as an attendee, discussant, or track chair, except for the first year students, as described above.  With the exception of funding for fifth year for a student presenting his/her research at a premier conference, travel funding is available for the first four years a student is enrolled in the PhD program. 

Muma College of Business Doctoral Student Merit Fellowships

The Muma College of Business offers up to three $10,000 fellowships that newly admitted students can be nominated for by their departments. These fellowships are renewable for up to four years based on performance and progress in the program. Progress will be measured objectively by research productivity at the end of each year in the program. Nominees should meet one or more of the following criteria:

• Evidence of significant research accomplishment, such as publication in a premier journal or outstanding research award
• Evidence of superior academic achievement, such as extremely high GMAT/GRE (90-95 percentile) or attendance at a top-ranked university
• Evidence of outstanding professional achievement (especially relating to research), such as external awards, international recognition or selection to firm research office
• Evidence of diversity: consideration of under-represented groups in the profession or academic area
• Evidence that the candidate is highly sought by aspirant type universities.