Teaching Fellowships (TF)
The primary source of support for graduate students are Teaching Fellowships. The department supports between 40 and 50 graduate students as teaching fellows and research assistants.

The starting salary for teaching fellows vary, depending on qualification, program levels, academic performance and progress. Please contact our Academic Advisor if an applicant wants to know more information about that. The salary is paid for 9 months plus benefits. A health insurance package is included among the benefits. Summer teaching is also available for additional income. This applies for 3 years at the Masters level and 5 years at the PhD level, and a combined total of no more than 6 years.

Each student receiving the Teaching Fellowship will automatically receive the Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship (GATF), i.e., the tuition for 9 credit hours/semester will be waived. But the university and college fee cannot be waived and must be paid by students. To know more information about the fee, please contact our Academic Advisor. The GATF applies for 2 years at the Masters level and 3 years at the PhD level. Courses in addition to 9 hours or taken after the first 5 years are billed at the resident tuition rate.

Typical duty of a teaching fellow is one of the followings: (1) Working in Math Lab (basically one-on-one tutoring). (2) Conducting recitations sessions for Calculus classes. (3) Grading. Generally teaching fellows will not teach regular courses.

Application Form for Teaching Fellowships (unformatted text form)

Research Assistantships (RA)
In addition to teaching fellows, about 10 to 15 graduate students are supported either fully or partially by individual faculty members as research assistants. This form of support generally only becomes available to more advanced graduate students who have established a research relationship with an individual faculty member. The same rules on tuition and fees apply to research assistants as apply to teaching fellows.

Presidential/Cullen/Ehrhardt Fellowship
Candidates for the Cullen Award in mathematics are chosen by colloboration of the Director of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Department of Mathematics. Guidelines in selecting possible candidates:

1. Student must have excellent academic performance as demonstrated by a high GPA, high GRE scores, exceptional grades in mathematics as well as all other coursework;
2. Letters of recommendation for the student are very important;
3. Student must be willing to pursue and must have potential to earn PhD in Mathematics.
4. Usually the best two US applicants are choosen as candidates.

Other Scholarships
Finally, both the University and the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics have an array of scholarships which are available to students. For information on these go to the UH financial aid page.

Go to the UH Financial Aid Page