Recruitment Opportunities

Distinguished Graduate Student Assistantships

Distinguished Graduate Student Assistantships (DGSA) are offered by Texas Tech University to attract high-quality applicants into our doctoral programs. Awards will be $25,000/year plus tuition and fee waivers for up 4 years, contingent upon satisfactory academic progress. Departments/programs receiving awards must commit to providing a 1:1 match ($12,500 Graduate School; $12,500 department/program per year for up to 4 years). Please note that DGSA stipend amounts for the Whitacre College of Engineering and the Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts will vary from the amount noted above in order to make competitive offers for those fields.

Departments/programs may have DGSA recipients serve as TAs, RAs, GPTIs, etc., but only at a level of 0.25FTE (e.g., teaching load must be half that of a regular TA/GPTI). Departments/programs may offer stipends above $25,000, but they are 100% responsible for the overage. The Graduate School portion of the DGSA is a 12-month RA appointment. Please note that preference will be given to nominees who have no more than 30 graduate hours.

Students may not apply; they must be nominated.  The nomination must clearly indicate how the nominee's qualifications rank among top applicants in the discipline (supported by appropriate metrics). Nominations for campus-wide competition and department allocations should be submitted here.

2027-2028 Academic Year Timetable

Nominations Closed

DGSA nominations will be submitted via Saleforce.
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Recruitment Fellowships

These awards provide supplements to department stipends in order to make competitive offers to top applicants. Fellowships are $5,000/yr for four years for Ph.D. students and $5,000/yr for two years for master's students. Students DO NOT apply for these fellowships.

Process: The Graduate School allocates these fellowships to college deans for distribution to departments; programs.  Departments/programs, in turn, use these to augment stipends to make tentative offers; department/program nominates prospective students in Salesforce at the time of tentative offer.  Should a student not accept a tentative offer, the department may "keep" the award until the deadline and use it to recruit another student.

2027-2028 Academic Year Timetable

Nominations Closed

Recruitment fellowship nominations will be submitted via Salesforce.
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For more information: gradfellowships@ttu.edu

 

Office of Graduate & Postdoctoral Fellowships