Financial Assistance for Theatre Arts Students

Teaching and Research Assistantships
Nearly all Theatre Arts graduate students hold an assistantship for the three years they are in residence. Theatre Arts assistantships require anywhere from ten to twenty hours per week. Salaries for 2008-09 range from $8,280 to $16,575.

Teaching and Research Assistantships

Tuition Scholarships
Students holding a 25% or greater teaching or research assistantship (covered by the COGS bargaining unit) are assured a minimum tuition scholarship of $4,954 for the 2008-09 academic year.  The tuition scholarship will rise in 2009-2010.  Students who have an assistantship quarter-time or more are classified as Iowa residents for tuition and fee purposes.

Graduate Assistant Tuition Scholarship

Iowa Arts Fellowships
Each year the Theatre Arts Department offers an Iowa Arts Fellowship to four incoming students. These fellowships provide full tuition, fees and health benefits for three years, as well as an $18,000 stipend in the first year, and an $9,000 stipend in the second and third year. In their second and third years Iowa Arts Fellows normally hold a quarter-time assistantship as well, which in 2008-09 provides $8,280.  These fellowships are competitive and are offered to outstanding applicants.

Iowa Arts Fellowships

Department Scholarships
The Theatre Arts Department has a number of scholarships specifically designated for graduate students.

Graduate-Level Theatre Arts Scholarships