Each year over 1,000 graduate students are awarded graduate assistantships that provide financial support for their graduate education. These appointments offer opportunities for students to engage in the research, teaching, and administrative missions of the university.

Graduate assistants receive a stipend for the duties that they perform, and UCF provides tuition remission and health insurance coverage for all qualifying assistantship appointments. Most assistantships are offered by a student's graduate program or department.

If you are interested in a graduate assistantship, contact your Graduate Program Director and ask about the assistantship application process in your program. A few assistantship opportunities are available in nonacademic offices - contact Career Services (407) 823-2361 or visit their website at www.career.ucf.edu for more information. All graduate assistantship appointments require full-time enrollment in a graduate program. 

Students who have graduate teaching assignments are required to complete UCF GTA training before beginning their assistantships. International students who have graduate teaching associate or assistant positions will need to pass the SPEAK Test administered by the Center for Multilingual Multicultural Studies before beginning their assistantships. Depending on their discipline or assignments, graduate research assistants may also have training requirements (for example, lab safety).

UCF Graduate Assistantships

Nondegree-seeking students may be employed but may not be classified as graduate assistants. Others that do not meet criteria for being a graduate assistant may be hired as OPS (temporary) employees.

See Financial Information in the Graduate Catalog for more information about assistantship requirements.