Overview
The Graduate College and SOLS completion fellowships are merit-based awards to support degree completion for outstanding graduate students enrolled in one credit for their last semester or last year of their doctoral program. This is a competitive fellowship award; all applications are reviewed by faculty and selected based on required application materials, detailed below.
Award details
- Fall - $12,678 (same amount as post-candidacy RA/TA stipend), tuition for 1 credit hour, and health insurance coverage.
- Spring - $13,657 (same amount as post-candidacy RA/TA stipend), tuition for 1 credit hour, and health insurance coverage.
Mandatory fees, program fees or any other fees are not covered as part of the fellowship.
Terms of award
- Recipient should enroll for a maximum of 1 credit hour each semester of award (unless they are receiving some other award as well that has a different required amount). This means students need to have completed all of their degree requirements already, including their dissertation (XXX 799) credit hours.
- Recipient should not be appointed as a TA/RA or hold any other form of employment within the university.
- Recipient should be able to finish degree according to the timeline submitted in their application.
Eligibility
- Student must be enrolled in an on-campus doctoral program.
- Student will have completed all course work, exams, and/or oral comps for their degree and will only need to register for 1 credit hour in each awarded term. This includes completion of dissertation credit hours.
- Student must be in good academic standing with a minimum 3.0 GPA.
Student should not plan to hold a TA/RA position or any other form of campus employment during the awarded term(s).
Note: Students cannot be nominated for more than two terms.
Procedure and deadline
The SOLS Graduate Office will send out a call for completion fellowship applications once per year at the end of January. If you intend to defend and graduate Fall 2025 or Spring 2026 and wish to apply, please be on the lookout for information January 2025. You will need to submit the elements below to the SOLS Graduate Office by February 2025.
- Student written two-page statement which outlines: students' research/project in layman's terms, significance and impact of research/project, how research/project aligns with and advances the ASU design aspirations.
- Timeline, an outline with a clear indication of the time needed for completion, no more than two (2) pages single spaced.
- Curriculum Vitae.
- Letter of support from dissertation/thesis/project committee chair.
Upon receiving applications, SOLS faculty will review applications in order to submit nominations to the Graduate College for their consideration. We are limited to send 2 per program to the Graduate College, but all applications will be considered for SOLS completion fellowships as well (award is the same, the only difference is who provides it).
Decisions and award letters will be communicated in April.