Doctoral assistantships are available for all doctoral students in the Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services in their first and second year in the Ph.D. program and are typically available at a lower stipend for the third year.

Full-time doctoral assistants receive a tuition waiver and a yearly stipend, as well as a remission of the contingent portion of the general fee, remission of the graduate course fee, and an out-of-state fee waiver. Assistants are required to pay dedicated fees.

For the 2008/09 academic year (Fall & Spring Semesters), our doctoral students on assistantships were paid $9,587. One of our students was awarded a university fellowship for this academic year. This fellowship paid $15,500.

First-year doctoral students are required to take an assistantship, but an exception can be made for one student if necessary. (Only one entering student per year will be allowed this option.) Any doctoral student may choose to decline the assistantship for the second and third year, if desired.

Assistantships are also available for students pursuing a master's degree on the way to a doctorate.

Students in the department engage in four different types of assistantships including:

• Research with faculty members (usually student's committee chair)
• Practicum supervision
• Professional duties in the departmental clinic (intake assessment, interviews, telephone screening, office support, etc.)
• Teaching undergraduate classes or assistant teaching of pre-practicum master's course

Doctoral students also receive excellent financial support from Ball State to present papers at professional conferences.

About Assistantships:

Additional Employment
Amenities for GAs
Available Assistantships
Deadlines for accepting offers of Financial Support
Employment Verification
Policy for Mid-Semester Assignments and Resignations
Policy on Assistantships/Position Descriptions
Stipends and Fee Remission Policies
Tax Exemptions