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<h4>What types of graduate financial support are available?</h4> <p>Graduate financial support based solely on financial need is聽provided, in the form of loans, grants, and鈥攐n a limited basis鈥攚ork-study聽employment, from the Financial Aid & Scholarships Office. Students must be U.S. citizens or permanent聽residents. For more information, contact the <a href="https://financialaid.ucla.edu">Financial聽Aid & Scholarships Office</a> at A-129J Murphy Hall, (310) 206-0400.</p> <p>Graduate financial support based on merit is available in the form of聽fellowships, traineeships, teaching assistantships, and graduate student researcher聽positions. These awards are open to all graduate students鈥擴.S. citizens, permanent residents, students granted deferred action under the government’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and international students鈥攚ho have demonstrated high academic achievement. For more聽information, refer to the <a href="https://grad.ucla.edu/funding/financial-aid/funding-for-entering-students/">Financial聽Support for Entering Graduate Students</a>聽or <a href="https://grad.ucla.edu/funding/financial-aid/funding-for-continuing-students/">Graduate Student Financial Support</a> on聽the Division of Graduate Education website and contact your departmental graduate affairs coordinator.</p> <h4>What are the deadlines for applying for graduate financial support?</h4> <p>The deadline for graduate loans and work-study funding available through the Financial Aid & Scholarships Office is March 2. The deadline for entering graduate students to apply for other forms of聽support is December 15. Departments should be consulted for exceptions. The campus聽deadlines for enrolled graduate students to apply for fellowships vary聽by program. View聽the <a href="https://grad.ucla.edu/funding/financial-aid/funding-for-continuing-students/">Graduate Student Financial Support</a>聽booklet for specific dates. Consult your department for exceptions.</p> <h4>How is Division of Graduate Education funding distributed?</h4> <p>The Division of Graduate Education allocates funding directly to graduate programs, which in turn select fellowship recipients through their faculty fellowship selection committees based on academic merit. Departments inform the Division of Graduate Education of those students who have been chosen to receive awards for the next academic year, and the Division of Graduate Education sends offers of support to those recipients. Graduate tuition, fee and nonresident tuition fellowships are credited directly to students’ BAR accounts, and graduate fellowship living allowances (stipends) are issued as direct deposits if the student is enrolled in <a href="https://sa.ucla.edu/MessageCenter/OneStop/Public/FAQ?FAQId=915">Bruin Direct</a>. 聽If not, the stipend is issued as a check and mailed to the address on file with the Registrar’s Office.</p> <h4>How does a graduate student apply for extramural fellowships?</h4> <p>Extramural graduate funding originates from non-UCLA聽sources, such as federal agencies and private 聽organizations. Most extramural graduate fellowships聽require an application submitted directly to the sponsoring organization. Reference materials on extramural graduate funding along with applications for聽some extramural graduate fellowships are available in Graduate Fellowships & Financial Services in 1228 Murphy Hall.</p> <p>The Division of Graduate Education publishes an online database called聽<a href="https://grad.ucla.edu/funding/">Graduate and Postdoctoral Educational聽Support (GRAPES)</a>, which聽lists the more commonly sought graduate fellowships that are available from non-UCLA sources. Extramural awards with eligibility restrictions based on sex, gender, or sexual orientation have been removed from GRAPES to be compliance with Title IX regulations. You can search for those opportunities on other funding opportunity websites, in funding guides available at libraries, and on the <a href="https://www.careeronestop.org/Toolkit/Training/find-scholarships.aspx">CareerOneStop</a> site.</p> <h4>Does getting extramural graduate funding affect a student’s support from UCLA?</h4> <p>Graduate students may not hold two major awards at聽the same time. When a student receives extramural funding, the amount of supplementary聽UCLA support is usually subject to limits. Contact Graduate Fellowships & Financial Services in 1228 Murphy Hall,聽(310) 825-1025, for details.</p> <h4>Is funding available for graduate student conference travel, research expenses and/or professional development?</h4> <p>Each new and continuing doctoral student will be provided up to $1,000 total reimbursement that can be used, in whole or in part, at any time through the student鈥檚 seventh year in the doctoral program, as long as the student and the activities meet the eligibility requirements.</p> <h2>GRADUATE AWARD DISBURSEMENT</h2> <h4>How and when do graduate students get their fellowship money?</h4> <p>Graduate student fee and tuition awards will automatically聽apply toward registration and tuition fees. Graduate student fellowship payments are sent to students’聽local mailing addresses, held for pickup, or direct-deposited one to two weeks before the聽start of the fall or spring term. Winter funds are disbursed on January 1,聽and may take about one week to be reimbursed. Monthly payments should arrive by the first聽day of the month. Questions regarding graduate fellowship check disbursement may be directed to聽Graduate Fellowships & Financial Services, 1228 Murphy Hall, (310) 825-1025.</p> <h4>Where should graduate students go with questions regarding BruinBill and graduate award payments?</h4> <p>Graduate Fellowships & Financial Services at 1228 Murphy Hall will answer questions relating to disbursement of graduate award payments. BruinBill questions regarding Financial Aid awards (e.g., need-based grants) should be directed to the <a href="https://financialaid.ucla.edu">Financial聽Aid & Scholarships Office</a> at A129J Murphy Hall, and questions regarding loans should be directed to the聽<a href="http://www.loans.ucla.edu/">Student Loan Office</a> at Strathmore 106.</p> <h4>Can I as a graduate student view online my financial information, scheduled payments, and direct deposits?</h4> <p>Yes. Using <a href="http://my.ucla.edu/">MyUCLA</a>, you can review your BruinBill;聽your scheduled graduate financial aid, fellowships, remissions, and other awards; and the聽actual dates and amounts of your checks and direct deposits. In addition, you can check to聽see if you have holds on your account that are preventing the disbursement of your graduate support funds, and聽you can ensure that all required financial documents have been completed for the Financial聽Aid & Scholarships Office and the Graduate Fellowships & Financial Services Office.</p> <h4>Do graduate students have to pay taxes on fellowships?</h4> <p>Graduate fellowship stipend income is taxed differently than聽most other types of income you may have encountered in the past. Amounts spent on fees,聽tuition, or required course expenses are not taxable. However, the portion of graduate fellowship聽stipend income you spend on items other than fees, tuition, and required course expenses聽will likely be considered taxable by the IRS. Graduate students who are U.S. citizens and permanent residents 聽and who聽are also California residents (for tax purposes) do not have taxes withheld from their聽fellowship stipend checks. Nonetheless, these individuals may be required to make聽estimated quarterly tax payments and to report the income on their tax returns.</p> <p>Foreign graduate students and those who live outside of聽California and file tax returns as California nonresidents will have state and/or federal聽taxes withheld directly from their checks.</p> <p>Information about fellowship taxation is available in IRS Publication 970, “Tax Benefits for Education,” available for download from the <a href="https://www.irs.gov">IRS聽website</a>. Another IRS publication available from the same website offers information on paying聽estimated tax when your residency status does not permit the tax to be withheld directly聽from your check: Publication 505, “Tax Withholding and Estimated Tax.”</p> <h4>Who can answer tax questions concerning graduate fellowships?</h4> <p>Students are advised to retain “Offer of聽Graduate Student Support” agreements, fellowship and traineeship offer letters, BruinBill聽monthly statements, payroll wage stubs, and other documents and receipts related to graduate fellowship stipends and course expenses.</p> <p>View <a href="https://grad.ucla.edu/funding/financial-aid/tax-information-forms-for-ucla-fellowship-recipients/">Tax Information and Forms for UCLA Award Recipients</a>聽information about UCLA fellowship tax withholding and reporting.</p> <h2>ACADEMIC APPRENTICE PERSONNEL</h2> <h4>What are the responsibilities of a teaching assistant or graduate student researcher?</h4> <p>TAs supervise assignments in small discussion and聽lab sections of undergraduate courses. GSRs assist faculty members with scholarly research聽and may or may not collaborate in the publication of research results. For more聽information view the <a href="https://grad.ucla.edu/funding/working-at-ucla/academic-apprentice-personnel-manual/">Academic Apprentice Personnel Manual</a>.</p> <h4>Are academic apprentice appointees eligible for benefits?</h4> <p>Academic apprentice appointees are eligible聽for fee deferrals, medical insurance, fee remissions and TA Advance Loan checks. For聽details on these benefits consult the聽<a href="https://grad.ucla.edu/funding/working-at-ucla/academic-apprentice-personnel-manual/">Academic Apprentice Personnel Manual</a>.</p> <h4>What are the requirements graduate apprentices must meet to receive fee remissions?</h4> <p>The following standards must be met in order聽for graduate students to receive apprentice fee remissions: (1) Students must register and enroll聽by the third week of the quarter (registration and enrollment must also be maintained聽throughout the quarter); (2) appointment(s) must total 25% time or more for the quarter;聽(3) students must work hours equivalent to 25% time in apprentice titles in a given聽quarter (usually 106-110 hours); (4) graduate students are expected to enroll in at least 12 units聽to receive health insurance and fee remissions. In addition, graduate students must maintain a 3.0聽GPA to be appointed as an apprentice and may not work more than 12 quarters as a TA or聽more than 18 quarters in all apprentice titles combined.</p> <h4>Where can I find more information on academic apprentice opportunities?</h4> <p>Anticipated graduate student employee openings for the academic year are available online on the聽<a href="https://grad.ucla.edu/funding/working-at-ucla/academic-student-employees-appointments-union-contract/">Academic Student Employees (ASE) Appointment Opportunities page</a>.</p> <hr /> <p><em>The University of California does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, disability, age, medical condition (cancer-related), ancestry, marital status, citizenship, sexual orientation, or status as a Vietnam-era veteran or special disabled veteran. See the <a href="https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/fees-and-enrollments/policies-and-resources/nondiscrimination-statement.html">University of California Nondiscrimination Statement</a>. 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