Financial Resources

The Office of Financial Aid, 105 Schmitz Hall (phone: 206-543-6101), provides information and application forms for available loans and work study positions. The Graduate School also provides links to financial resources for graduate students. Applications for financial aid are generally due during the winter before the following academic year. Please check current deadline requirements with the Financial Aid Office. Departmental employment, financial aid, and work study positions are sometimes available to qualified students.

Three federally funded long term nutrition traineeships are available to advanced Nutritional Sciences graduate students. Traineeships require that students be Registered Dietitians. Stipends provided by funds from the Maternal Child Health Bureau of the Health Care Resources Administration are provided for nine months. One traineeship is through the Pediatric Pulmonary Center, one is through the Partners in Excellence for Leadership Training in MCH Nutrition, and the other is through the UW leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. See MCH Traineeships for further information.

In addition, some program scholarships are available annually to current students. The application deadline is in the early spring, and the Graduate Program Assistant will send the application out to all current students. In order to be considered for these scholarships, the application must be completed and received by the application deadline.

Immediately following acceptance to the program, attempts will be made to place PhD students as research assistants with core and interdisciplinary group faculty based on the mutual research interests of the student and faculty member, and the availability of research funding.

The Nutritional Sciences Program is unable to offer financial aid to international students.

Last updated October 8, 2007