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Financial Assistance

The Department of History and the University of Houston offer a wide array of financial assistance to graduate students. This assistance includes teaching assistantships, instructional assistantships, research assistantships, fellowships, prizes and student loans. Teaching and instructional assistantships (and most fellowships) begin at $9,360/academic year for first-year Masters students and increase every succeeding year. They include health benefits and tuition fellowships (two years at the MA level and three years at the Ph.D. level). Assistantships are available for a maximum of six years (over the MA/Ph.D. period).

Fellowships have been established in African-American, Mexican-American and Public History. In addition, the department offers the John O. King fellowships and the Pearson Fellowship for outstanding graduate students. Murray Miller Fellowships are awarded to promising incoming graduate students or for doctoral students conducting dissertation research. Each year one student is selected as "outstanding graduate student" and presented with a cash prize.

The University offers scholarships for outstanding new graduate students for which the department can nominate newly accepted students. The University also makes available some scholarship money for graduate students studying abroad. The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences administers the C.W. Moores fellowship for advanced female graduate students.