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Graduate Stipends 2025-2026

Incoming first-year graduate students will be supported by a combination of an annual 50% appointment Teaching Assistantship ($18,057 for students with an undergraduate degree, $19,964 for students with an MS degree) and a Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award ($5,400) for a total annual salary of over $23,000. In addition, the University provides a academic year tuition remission worth $12,728 and contributes $8,072 towards health insurance for all graduate students, which can be extended to spouse and dependent children. The Total Compensation Package is above $41,500.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.