Funding

Tuition & Fees

Assistantships

Each year OSU awards more than $15 million in stipends to graduate teaching assistants and graduate research assistants. Graduate students in Communication Sciences and Disorders may receive a .25 FTE (10 hours per week) graduate teaching assistantship (GTA). In addition to a monthly stipend, students are awarded a full tuition waiver.   Students accepted into the graduate program will be reviewed for assistantship. No application is required.  Assistantships are awarded on merit. GRE scores and undergraduate GPA factor heavily into the decision to award.

Non-Resident Tuition Award Program

Starting fall 2022, OSU has a new non-resident tuition award program for out-of-state students applying to different graduate programs including our graduate program of Communication Sciences and Disorders. 

• This award sets the tuition rate equal to the online graduate nonresident tuition rate. This rate was set at $364/credit hour for the 2021-2022 academic year.
• The rate may increase if OSU increases tuition in the future.
• Reduction stays in place through degree completion.
• This is a tuition saving of $515.75/credit hour or a discount $11,346.50 for the typical full-time enrollment of 22 (9/9/4) credit hours a year vs the usual cost of $879.75/credit hour or $19,354.50 for the year in tuition.

For more information about financial costs, available aid, and available scholarships and grants, please visit https://go.okstate.edu/scholarships-financial-aid/

Graduate Assistantships

We are one of the leading universities within the state of Oklahoma that offers different avenues of graduate funding. These include departmental graduate teaching assistantships, graduate research assistantships, and other graduate scholarships. We have been to provide at least some degree of funding for at least 50% of our incoming graduate students.

(A) Summary of Graduate Assistantships (number of positions in parentheses)

(B) Number of Graduate Students to Receive Assistantship/ Funding

(C) Graduate Scholarships

In addition to graduate teaching assistantships (GTAs) and graduate research assistantships (GRAs), our department offers several graduate student scholarships annually. Some of these scholarships are listed below:

1. Communication Sciences and Disorders Endowed Scholarship: The recipient must be a senior accepted into the OSU graduate program for the subsequent fall semester in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at OSU. Selection criteria will include a 3.25 GPA (undergraduate).
2. Leone L. and William H. Monroe Scholarship: The recipient must be enrolled as a second-year graduate student in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Oklahoma State University. Selection criteria will include academic records and practicum performance.
3. Ronald and Julie Schaefer Endowed Scholarship: The recipient must be a second-year graduate student at OSU and must have graduated from a high school located in the State of Oklahoma. In the event no graduate students are identified using this criterion, the Head of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders may select a student at his/her discretion to receive the scholarship for that year.
4. Jeanette Sias Graduate Research Award: The recipient must be a graduate student with outstanding research contributions to communicative disorders with a preference for stuttering research/ service/ clinical contribution. Nomination from your research mentor (CDIS Faculty) is required, and previous awardees will not be considered for this recognition.
5. Oklahoma ABLE Tech Scholarship: The recipient must be enrolled as a full-time student in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Oklahoma State University. Selection criteria will include involvement in clinical practicum (Submit five demos, submit one success story, Help a client/family access at least one device from the ABLE tech loan system).