The dollar amount of your award is stated on your offer letter. Your award will not pay for more than this amount. Be mindful of this in case you withdraw from a course after the 100% refund date passes (see rule #2). You must pay for all charges that exceed the dollar amount of your scholarship and for tuition/fees related to courses that are not covered by your scholarship.
If you drop a course after late registration you will not recover all of your scholarship money to reuse. You will receive a refund based on the tuition refund adjustment schedule in place at the time of the drop.
Note: If you drop a course after late registration and add a course at the same time, the course you add may not be paid for in full by your scholarship, since you may not have received a 100% refund on the dropped course. You may then have to pay for a portion of the course you add.
Your scholarship will be disbursed to your Bursar account, or show up as an anticipated payment on your account, after we receive your formal acceptance of the offer, and after you register as a full-time student (see rule #5 for rules on full-time status).
Scholarship awards may only be used to pay for valid courses that are directly related to your degree.
Valid Courses Are:
- 200- and 300-level graduate courses that count towards your degree.
- 100-level courses available for graduate credit that count towards your degree.
Invalid Courses Are:
- Audited courses (if you register for audit courses or change from credit to audit during the semester you are responsible for the tuition fees for those courses).
- Undergraduate-level prerequisites or deficiency courses.
- Undergraduate courses taken for undergraduate credit (000-level or 100- level).
- Personal preference courses within or outside of your discipline that will not count toward your degree and that have not been approved for scholarship coverage by both your department and the Graduate School in writing.
Recipients of scholarships, except the Catholic School Scholarships and Milwaukee Area Teachers Scholarships, are expected to maintain full-time status during the terms of their awards. Full-time status is defined as enrollment in at least 7 credit hours of courses or its equivalent through continuous enrollment. Exceptions, which are occasionally made, must be endorsed by the student’s department and submitted to the Graduate School for approval. By agreement with the College of Business Administration, the full-time status rule is waived for MBA students.
If your award is funded by an individual philanthropist, foundation, or organization, your acceptance of the award allows the Graduate School to send an academic progress report to the donors or sponsors of the award. In addition the Graduate School or University Advancement may contact you with instructions to write a letter of gratitude to the donor.
You must register no later than the last date of online CheckMarq registration of the first semester of your award term or your award may be rescinded and offered to another student.
Awards are semester specific. Refer to your award letter for the amount of your scholarship for fall, spring, and summer terms. Unused scholarship money from one term is not automatically carried forward to following terms. Contact the Graduate School to request transfer of scholarship money from one term to another. Award money cannot be transferred from one aid year to another.
Scholarships will not pay for more than 6 thesis or 12 dissertation credits.
