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University of Cincinnati administered funding (e.g., Graduate Assistantships, fellowships, and university graduate scholarships) is awarded on academic merit. All students on academic probation or those admitted without regular graduate status are ineligible. Graduate students are discouraged from assuming workloads in excess of 20 hours per week during academic quarters since the graduate appointee is first and foremost a student.
Students who receive funds from the State of Ohio are governed by the following eligibility requirements and limitations. Any student who becomes ineligible to receive state subsidy is not eligible to receive general funds financial aid (i.e., a stipend and/or tuition).
Graduate students who have attempted 260 graduate credit hours at the University of Cincinnati are not eligible for a university award for enrollment beyond the 260 hours. Hours attempted include hours for which credit has been awarded, as well as hours in progress or incomplete. All graduate hours attempted at the University of Cincinnati, regardless of program, count toward the 260 total. Attempted hours do not include hours withdrawn. (This does not apply to medical students.)
If a student earned master’s credits at the University of Cincinnati (for either a partial or full degree), the actual hours completed to satisfy his or her degree requirements are deducted from the 260 credit hour total for which he or she can receive funding. This is true if the credits are earned at an earlier time and the student returns to the University of Cincinnati to continue his or her graduate education, and it is true regardless of the discipline in which those credits were earned. For example, if a student has earned a master’s degree in engineering and then chooses to pursue master’s and doctoral degrees in math, the credits earned to get the engineering degree are deducted from the 260 credit hours for which the student can receive state financial support (e.g., fellowships, assistantships, and scholarships).
Graduate students who have earned a master’s degree at another institution are not eligible for a university scholarship or fellowship once they have attempted 209 graduate credit hours at the University of Cincinnati. If a student enters the University of Cincinnati with a master’s degree from any other institution other than the University of Cincinnati, he or she is credited with 51 graduate student credit hours toward his or her 260 credit hour limit for state funding eligibility. Ohio can subsidize them for up to the remaining 209 credit hours of education at the University of Cincinnati. The 51 credit hours are deducted from the 260, regardless of the discipline and regardless of the graduate level at which the student enters the University of Cincinnati. For example, if a student has earned a master’s degree in engineering at Ohio State University and then chooses to pursue master’s and PhD degrees in math at UC, the credits they earned to get their engineering degree are deducted from the 260 credit hours for which they can receive state financial support in the math program.
If a student enters the University of Cincinnati with only partial credit toward a degree he or she was pursing in another institution, those credits are not deducted from the 260 total—even if the program he or she is entering at the University of Cincinnati agrees to accept transfer of those credits toward the student’s degree requirements at the University of Cincinnati. The student can still receive state subsidy for up to 260 credit hours earned at the University of Cincinnati beyond those transferred in.
A student is not eligible for funding beginning with the quarter in which said student will reach the 260 (or 209) hours. For example, if a student has earned 250 graduate credit hours at the University of Cincinnati by the close of summer sessions and registers for (attempts) 12 credit hours for autumn quarter, he or she is ineligible for a university graduate scholarship or fellowship.
Any student who is ineligible to receive state funding is not eligible to receive university general funds financial aid, i.e., a stipend and/or tuition.
Note: For the purposes of this policy, a master’s degree is one awarded by an American institution or a degree of equivalent meaning from a foreign institution. Students holding a master’s degree from a foreign institution that is the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree in the United States will have the higher limit. The higher limit will not be affected by a student’s completion of course work short of a master’s degree at another institution.
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