Graduate Financial Support FAQs
- Courtney Aguila
- Florenz Torralba
- Kacy Cashatt
Please also visit Getting Started with Graduate Financial Support, Graduate Financial Support Calendar, and So You Want to Hire a Graduate Student....
General Financial Support Topics
Overview
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Instructions
Log in to Collab and click Watch in the upper right-hand corner
If you cannot log in, move to Step 2
Members of other UCSD groups can request access to Collab / Confluence by going to the portal and filling out this catalog item: https://support.ucsd.edu/its?id=sc_cat_item&sys_id=9af5d148db514450008c9837db96190b
Complete the request form
Are you requesting this on behalf of yourself or someone else? Myself
What is the affiliation of the requestor? UCSD
What is the name associated to the Active Directory Account? (your name)
Which services does the requestor need access to? http://collab.ucsd.edu (Confluence)
When should access to these tools expire? choose a date in the distant future
Are thee any other comments you would like to include? add in any other details you think are relevant
Please see Graduate Financial Support Calendar
Question:
What are the funding options for graduate students?
Answer:
Financial Aid
UC San Diego graduate students may apply for need-based aid by completing a Free Application for Federal student Aid (FAFSA). Need-based aid is administered through the Financial Aid Office, not GEPA:
Financial Aid Timeline for Graduate/ Professional School Students
Financial Aid Eligibility Requirements for Graduate Students
Fellowships and Awards
Fellowships are generally merit-based awards that provide a stipend and tuition assistance to graduate students. Additional financial support and eligibility requirements may vary by award.
Academic Employment Opportunities
Financial support may be awarded through academic appointment of assistantships. These awards, generally administered by discipline and department, may grant a stipend and tuition payment for providing assistance in teaching and/or research support.
The Graduate Financial Support Unit (FSU) shares spreadsheets and other documents via Google Drive to create a single, centralized version of the file. We do this to avoid version control problems that arise when living documents are sent via attachment. This also streamlines our internal process, ensuring we review the most current information in the single version of that file. Our hope is that it provides visibility and efficiency for you all, as well (especially when there are updates to the data, turnover or reassignment within your unit, coordination between units, etc.).
Many of the documents we share broadly are available to anyone with an @ucsd.edu Google account - if you used another domain to request access (i.e. @gmail.com or @eng.ucsd.edu), please log in via your UCSD AD account and try again.
Access to some documents we share is more appropriately restricted and managed via Google Groups (also using the @ucsd.edu domain); it may be the case you will need to join a Google Group for access.
If you have already attempted to access the document using your @ucsd.edu login and cannot, please submit a ticket at https://support.ucsd.edu/its and include "Attn: Jonathan Wai" in the subject line.
For those in Health Sciences:
In response to requests, we are now enabling Health Sciences users to collaborate using a UC San Diego Health provisioned Google account. It is important to note that if you choose to use Google Drive through UC San Diego Health, you must attest (via DocuSign form) that you will not store or share any ePHI data within this environment. If you would like to have a UC San Diego Health account activated, please contact the UC San Diego Health Service Desk at 3help.ucsd.edu to initiate the process.
For those managing multiple Google logins, you may find Google Chrome Profiles to be a helpful way to quickly access multiple accounts via shortcut without having to log in and out.
Subscribe to a GEPA Financial Support Listserv! Looking to join mailing lists for Graduate Academic Affairs? See: Academic Affairs Listservs
UC San Diego is now using Google Groups to administer mailing lists.
Refer to this Google Groups Help page for detailed instructions to subscribe to these and other UC San Diego mailing lists.
Emails previously sent from one of these listservs live in the Google Group and serve as an archive for older messages.
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Graduate Employment | Staff listserv. Employment-related policy information and updates, including UCPath data entry instructions. | |
Graduate Financial Support | Staff listserv. Employment + fellowship policy information and updates; includes all GradEmp information, in addition to fellowship stipend, fellowship tuition/fee updates, and third-party billing. | |
Visiting Graduate Students | Staff listserv. Visiting Graduate Student information and updates. |
Graduate Student Employment Topics
Overview of Graduate Academic Titles
Fee Remission
Summer Support
Remote Work
For questions or comments about information on this page, contact the Division of Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs by submitting a Services & Support ticket.