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GRADUATE STUDENT FUNDING
Anticipated Expenses for graduate studies for the nine-month
academic year as established by UCLA’s Financial Aid office can be found
at (http://www.fao.ucla.edu/fao_information_costs.htm).
Actual living expenses will depend on personal circumstances. The
following is an annual sample budget for
students living off-campus: 2007-08 (subject to change)
Room and Board: $13,002
Books and Supplies: $1,836
Transportation: $2,424
Personal: $2,463
Registration fees (including health insurance): $8,967.50 for residents;
$9,261.50 for non-residents
Tuition: $14,694
A breakdown of up to date fee and tuition costs can be found at
http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/fees/.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Good news. UCLA has various funding opportunities
and virtually all admitted PhD sociology students obtain competitive
funding packages depending on their merit and progress in the program.
The main funding opportunities are graduate division fellowships,
departmental fellowships, and extramural funding. For incoming
students by far the largest source of support comes in the offers of one
or multiple years of support that the Department makes to admitted
students. Some of these funds originate from sources outside the
Department, but are controlled by the Department.
Graduate
Division Fellowship Programs and Support from UCLA Centers
There are a number of campus-wide fellowship
programs, e.g., the Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship, Foreign Language
and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for which the department can
nominate admitted students if you apply and meet the eligibility
criteria. To apply for campus-wide awards, submit the Fellowship
Application for Entering Graduate Students directly to our
department by December 15 OR
complete the fellowship section of your online graduate admissions
application. For FLAS fellowships include a language reference letter in
your application package. For the Eugene Cota-Robles Award you must
also submit the Diversity Fellowship Supplemental Application to the
department. Please note that the Sociology Department cannot nominate
applicants for the Graduate Opportunity Fellowship Program (GOFPA list
of the Graduate Division programs and the fellowship application form
can be found at
http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/asis/entsup/finsup.htm. Note
that for most of these awards recommendation by the Department is
critical, and the Department reserves the right to consider these awards
that originate from other places on campus as part of the total award
package that we are offering, fully subject to our rules and conditions.
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS)
for the academic year or summer awards only are available for the
following languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean (East
Asia); Spanish, Portuguese, and Quechua (Latin America); Arabic,
Armenian, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish (Middle East); Indonesian,
Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese (Southeast Asia). For additional
information and requirements specific to each area program please
consult the website at
http://www.international.ucla.edu/funding/. This site also
lists a number of other funding opportunities for international studies.
Departmental Support
The department’s Admissions and Awards Committee will consider all
admitted applicants—U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and
international students--for departmental support (stipends, registration
fees, nonresident tuition, assistantships) at the time of admission.
Decisions are made based on merit, i.e., the applicant’s strength of
record and promise in relation to the other students, and not on
financial need. Completion of a fellowship application for departmental
support is not required.
Many, and in recent years all of our admitted
students, have received an offer for financial support from the
department. Our typical award offers have provided five years of
guaranteed support which included one or two years of fellowship
(stipend, registration fees, and nonresident tuition for the first year
if needed) and three or four years of guaranteed assistantships at
varying levels of support. Stipends
have ranged from $16,000-20,000 in
2006-07 and are ordinarily scheduled for the first and fifth year. In
rare instances first-year students who have already had teaching
experience could be offered a teaching assistantship.
For each year of guaranteed assistantship support
(typically year 2-4), the department will offer a teaching assistantship
at 50% (20 hours per week). If a faculty member offers a Graduate
Student Researcher (GSR) position for one or all of these years the
GSRship will satisfy/replace the departmental support commitment. TA
salaries start at $15,610 for a nine-month, half-time appointment
(2006-07). GSR hourly rates range from $14.79 to $28.99 (2006-07) hour
depending on experience. Under certain circumstances, TAs and GSRs
qualify to have a portion of their mandatory registration fees
(including medical insurance premium) paid by the University and in more
limited circumstances, GSRs may qualify to have 100% of non-resident
tuition paid. For more information on UCLA’s academic apprentice
personnel positions, salary rates, remission rates, and policies go to
http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/publications.asp and read the entries for
“Academic Apprentice Personnel.”
Extramural Funding
There are many extramural agencies that provide
fellowships for graduate students.
We strongly urge our applicants and continuing
students to research external funding opportunities and apply for every
fellowship for which they are eligible.
The UCLA Graduate Division has an on-line database
of extramural funding opportunities called GRAPES available at:
http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/grpinst.htm. The GRAPES database catalogs
over 500 private and publicly funded awards, fellowships, and
internships and allows searches by field, academic level, award type,
award amount, and other criteria. In addition, there are directories of
extramural support that can be found at most university libraries. You
can find a list of these directories at
http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/asis/entsup/extramrl.htm.
Here are some of the best-known nation-wide
programs of which some are specifically for entering students:
American Sociological Association Minority
Fellowship Program:
http://www.asanet.org/cs/root/leftnav/funding/minority_fellowship_program
Last year the deadline was in January.
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Program for Minorities.
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/fordpredoc.html
Last year the deadline was in November.
Fulbright U.S. Student Program (IIE)
http://www.fulbrightonline.org/us
UCLA
campus application deadline is in September. For exact date please
contact fhu@gdnet.ucla.edu.
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program at the Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html
Check their web site for deadlines. Application deadline is
generally in early October.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/grfp/
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04615/nsf04615.htm
Check their web site for deadlines. Application deadline for social
sciences is generally in early November.
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
http://www.pdsoros.org/fullapp.pdf
Application deadline is November 1.
The Social Science Resource Council
http://fellowships.ssrc.org/overview/
Need-Based Financial Aid
Support based solely on financial need is provided
in the form of work-study and loans through the Financial Aid Office and
is available only to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. To apply
for financial aid, submit the
Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to the Department
of Education by March 2nd. For more information on applying for
need-based support at UCLA, please refer to the web site maintained by
the Financial Aid Office at
www.fao.ucla.edu.
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