1-Year and 2-Year Merit Graduate Student Awards    

Texas A&M University at Galveston Merit Graduate Student Awards were created to allow faculty to compete effectively for high quality and diverse graduate students. The Awards program is open to all TAMU(G) thesis option master’s and doctoral students working on the TAMUG campus under the direct supervision of a TAMUG faculty member.

Students receiving the Galveston 1-Year or 2-Year Merit Graduate Student Award will have 12 months or 24 months of salary, medical, tuition, and fees covered (24 SCHs per year). This award is in the form of a 12-month Graduate Assistant-Research (GAR) position each year.

Doctoral & Master’s Awards

Doctoral Awards amount to ~$83,200 during the first two-year period depending on the program and classification. This includes a $25,000 stipend paid per year, ~$12,000 per year tuition and fees for two years.

Master’s Awards amount to ~$78,300 during the first two-year period depending on the program and classification. This includes a $23,400 stipend paid per year, ~$12,000 per year tuition and fees for two years. This program is limited to outstanding students entering master’s thesis/research programs.

Expected outcomes

TAMUG Graduate Student Award holders are expected to provide academic leadership among graduate students within their departments and be well-positioned for employment upon graduation. These students are expected to be academically successful and to distinguish themselves through publications, conference presentations, or other indicators of research success and future promise.

Eligibility

Faculty can nominate as many applicants as desired for incoming awards and nominate an applicant for multiple incoming awards.  The Research Advisory Council (RAC) will determine recipients of all awards (i.e., 2-Year and 1-Year Award) at the same time.  Faculty submitting multiple nominees are required to rank them. 

The faculty advisor must provide clear evidence of support for the student’s research and be a Galveston faculty member (adloc-ed to a Galveston-based department). Faculty should submit a nomination letter to gradstudies@tamug.edu. Only one nomination letter is needed to nominate an applicant to the incoming award applicant pool.  Nominations for incoming Fall 2024 students are due by 5:00 p.m. CST on Friday, March 1, 2024.

Master’s students currently enrolled at TAMU or TAMUG are not eligible for Ph.D. Graduate Student Awards. These awards will only be available to students at the beginning of their graduate career at TAMU(G).