Graduate Financial Support

Deadline for scholarships, assistantships and fellowship opportunities is February 15 each year.

Approximately 95% of current full-time, on campus graduate students in ECCB are supported by departmental teaching assistantships, grant-based research assistantships, or internal and external graduate fellowships and grants, amounting to over $200,000 per year. Research and travel grants are also available from the department and university.

Scholarships and Financial Aid

Texas A&M offers many financial aid options to help you pay for college costs. Visit the Scholarships and Financial Aid website to learn about applying for financial assistance.

Financial Assistance

Graduate and Professional Studies

Visit the OGAPS to find resources and funding opportunities specifically for graduate students.

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Assistantships

Teaching assistantships (GAT)

Available either as matching for graduate fellowships or allocated to individual faculty members through a rotation system. Contact your faculty advisor on availability of TA positions.

If you are interested in a teaching assistantship, fill out the Graduate Teaching Assistant application.

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Research assistantships (Research assistantships (GAR)

Grant-based graduate student support. Contact your faculty advisor on availability of RA positions.

Departmental Scholarships and Awards

Will Roach ’84 Memorial Graduate Fellowship

Distributions from this endowment will be used to provide one or more fellowships to full-time graduate students with a demonstrated passion for wildlife biology, in good standing, and pursuing a graduate degree in Ecology and Conservation Biology from Texas A&M University.

Award: $1,000

Richard J. Baldauf ’51 Endowed Graduate Fellowship

Vola and Dr. Fred ’59 Palmer Scholarship

Distributions from this endowment will be used to provide one scholarship to a full-time graduate student in good standing conducting research and studying in areas of upland game bird research, ungulate research and or ecology research related to Ecology and Conservation Biology in the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology. Student must have a minimum 3.0 GPR.

Award: $1,000

McMillian-Ward Memorial Endowed Graduate Fellowship

The gift will provide a fellowship for a full-time graduate student, in good standing in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and having an interest in forest science. The designated student shall be assigned to the Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Overton for the purpose of conducting graduate research at the McMillan Demonstration Forest and surrounding areas where he or she will study under the local supervision of a member of the graduate faculty and the Resident Director of Research.

Frank W. Gould Award for Graduate Research Support in Plant Systematics

Proceeds from the fund are to be used for fellowships for graduate students who are studying taxonomic or plant systematics and to support taxonomic studies of individual graduate students in their collections of native plant materials, travel to professional meetings or publications of completed papers and theses.

Phillip B. Lucus Endowed Graduate Fellowship

George and Judy Dishman Endowed Graduate Fellowship

Distributions from this endowment are to be used to support a graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, with an interest in Forest Science. Student must be in good standing, have a GPA of at least 3.5 and a GRE score > 1200. Student must provide a letter of recommendation.

W.B. Davis Endowed Scholarship

Undergraduate student in wildlife and fisheries sciences, with specific emphasis in wildlife or a graduate student studying wildlife ecology & management. Student must have a minus 3.0 GPR and be in good standing with the University.

Award: $1,000

Graduate Diversity Fellowships

These competitive fellowships are available from the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies (OGAPS) for incoming masters or doctoral students. Your faculty nominates you for the fellowship. You must have a complete graduate school application on file with ECCB by December 1 prior to your incoming fall semester. Recipients are chosen by a university-wide selection committee. ECCB provides matching funds, in the form of a teaching or research assistantship. (See the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies Diversity Fellowship page.)

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Funding and Research Opportunities for Minorities and People of Color.

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Fellowships

Excellence Fellowship

This competitive fellowship is available to incoming masters (thesis option only) and doctoral students. Your future advisor may nominate you for this fellowship.

Graduate Merit Fellowship

This competitive fellowship is available to incoming masters (thesis option only) and doctoral students. Your future advisor may nominate you for this fellowship. The ECCB department provides a match in the form of a teaching assistantship.

Lechner Scholars Fellowship

This scholarship is supported by the Walter W. Lechner Estate Endowment. The scholarship is awarded to new, incoming graduate students through a competitive process. The scholarships can range from $500-$4,000. The funds can be used toward tuition, fees, and books. All recipients of this scholarship are designated Lechner Scholars. The student must be nominated by their mentor. The mentor must submit a letter of support detailing why the student is deserving of this scholarship and a copy of the student’s CV. The students CANNOT nominate themselves for this award.

Tom Slick Fellowship

The Tom Slick Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences provides financial support for students who conduct research relevant to the agriculture of Southwest Texas; the research must be conducted in the State of Texas. This competitive fellowship is awarded to outstanding doctoral students who have completed preliminary exams to support completion of their dissertation. See the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences funding opportunities page.

Willie Mae Harris Fellowship

The Willie Mae Harris Fellowship was established by the Mr. John Richard Harris to support graduate students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The fellowship is $12,000 for the academic year. The graduate student must be an outstanding MS (thesis option) or PhD graduate student who has served as a Graduate Assistant Teaching (GAT) for at least two semesters. This fellowship is to reward outstanding Graduate Assistant Teaching (GAT) and relieve them of a portion of their teaching load towards the end of their graduate program so they can focus on their thesis or dissertation research.

U.S. Senator Gramm Doctoral Fellowship

This competitive fellowship is available to currently enrolled doctoral students. Its purpose is to recognize outstanding teaching and research by doctoral students. Your advisor or another faculty member nominates you for this fellowship; you must provide some materials for the nomination package. Nominations are first routed through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; those selected by the college are then evaluated by a university-wide committee.

Deadline for scholarships, assistantships and fellowship opportunities is February 15 each year.

Scholarships and Financial Aid

Graduate and Professional Studies

Assistantships

Teaching assistantships (GAT)

Research assistantships (Research assistantships (GAR)

Departmental Scholarships and Awards

Graduate Diversity Fellowships

Funding and Research Opportunities for Minorities and People of Color.

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Fellowships

External Funding Sources

Graduate fellowships from national and private agencies

Research funding opportunities

Postdoctoral fellowship opportunities

Scholarships for minorities