Multi-Year Fellowships
2009-2010

Pursuant to the President’s response to the Committee on Graduate Education at the University of Kentucky, starting with the 1998-99 academic year the Graduate School began offering Multi-Year Fellowships that carry a stipend of $18,000, a tuition scholarship, and student health insurance. Intended to enhance the competitive ability of UK programs, Multi-Year Fellowships are designed to attract outstanding first-year graduate students being newly recruited to the University of Kentucky. Multi-Year Fellowships are 12-month awards.

CRITERIA FOR ELIGIBILITY

• Candidates must be enrolling for their first term of study in the program in a 2009 Summer Session or the 2009 Fall Semester. Candidates cannot be currently enrolled as graduate students at UK .
• Candidates may not have received previous graduate or professional degrees from UK .
• Candidates must have an undergraduate grade point average of 3.5 or above.
• Candidates must have a graduate grade point average of 3.7 or above on any previous graduate work.
• Candidates must have achieved the 90 th percentile or above on one portion of the GRE or GMAT.
• New students applying to enter a program whose most recent degree is from a college or university outside the U.S. are not eligible.
• Students in professional programs (Medicine, Dentistry, Law, Pharmacy, etc.) are NOT eligible.

NOMINATION PROCESS

Candidates for Multi-Year Fellowships must be nominated by the program's director of graduate studies. Programs may submit two nominations for the Multi-Year Fellowships.

1. A completed fellowship nomination form specific to the Multi-Year Fellowship;
2. A letter of nomination from the director of graduate studies elaborating on special qualifications of the candidate (previous scholarships, honors and awards, research papers, publications, etc.);
3. Three letters of recommendation from current or former professors;
4. Photocopies of transcripts from all schools attended, both undergraduate and graduate;
5. Photocopy of official GRE or GMAT scores.

SELECTION PROCESS

Ranking of the candidates and alternates for these fellowships will be determined on the basis of the criteria set forth above. Faculty representatives from the standing fellowship panels will advise the dean on recommended recipients and alternates.

DUE DATE FOR NOMINATIONS

Nominations with all appropriate documents (six complete sets) must reach the Graduate School Funding Office, 203 Gillis Building, no later than Monday, February 16, 2009. 

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Last updated September 18, 2008