2. Disbursement of Your Scholarship: 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.
3. Eligible Courses: Scholarship awards may only be used to pay for valid courses that are directly related to your degree.
Valid Courses Are:
Graduate-level courses numbered 5000 and above that count toward 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 courses taken for undergraduate credit including prerequisites or deficiency courses.
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.
Scholarships will not pay for more than 6 thesis or 12 dissertation credits.
4. Full-Time Enrollment Status: Recipients of scholarships, except the Catholic Schools Personnel 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 graduate continuation 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 Graduate School of Management, the full-time status rule is waived for MBA students.
5. Graduate School of Management Students: Scholarships awarded to students in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, and Human Resources are jointly administered by the Graduate School and the Graduate School of Management. GSM students are expected to follow the rules and guidelines in this document. Additional conditions may be placed on scholarship awards by the GSM. If that is the case you will be notified in writing by the GSM. Requests for waivers of any of the rules in this document must receive the approval of the GSM.
6. Privately-Funded (Named) Awards:
If your award is funded by an individual philanthropist, foundation, or organization, you may be contacted by University Advancement and invited to participate in their Student Thank You Program. The program, which is optional, allows students to express their gratitude to the donors.
7. Registration: You must register no later than the last date of registration of the first semester of your award term or your award may be rescinded and offered to another student.
8. Term of Award: 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 does not automatically carry forward to another term. You must contact the Graduate School to request the transfer of any of your scholarship money from one term to another. Award money cannot be transferred from one aid year to another. Each aid year begins with the fall term and includes the following spring and summer terms.
