Financial Support for Continuing Graduate Students

Graduate Advising
Department of Linguistics
UCLA

UCLA provides substantial support for its graduate students through fellowships, traineeships, and teaching and research assistantships.

For infomation on fellowship and grant awards, visit: http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/asis/entsup/fellgrnt.htm.

For information on Teaching and Research Assistantships, visit: http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/asis/entsup/ta-rashp.htm.

The Foreign Language and Area Studies Program (FLAS) assists individuals who are undergoing advanced training in modern foreign languages and related area studies. Applicants may apply for an academic year fellowship which provides a stipend of approx. $10,000, registration fees, and nonresident tuition; and/or a summer fellowship that provides a $2,400 stipend plus fees. Please note that you must be a US citizen or permanent resident to apply for these. Please visit the following site for more information: http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/asis/entsup/titlevi.htm. Applications for these fellowships are usually due by February 1st to the Student Affairs Officer in the Linguistics department .

There are many Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships that you might want to consider applying for. These include:

1) FLAS Fellowships for European Languages (Armenian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian/Croatian, Spanish, and Ukrainian)
Contact: UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, Phone: (310) 206-3555
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/euro/grants/grads.htm

2) FLAS Fellowships for Middle Eastern Languages (Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish)
Contact: UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, Phone: (310) 825-9639
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/cnes/resources/default.htm

3) FLAS Fellowships for East Asian Languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)
Contact: UCLA Center for East Asian Studies, Phone: (310) 825-0007
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/fellowships/02-nrf.htm

4) FLAS Fellowships for African Languages (Wolof, Swahili, and Zulu)
Contact: UCLA African Studies Center, Phone: (310) 825-3686
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/jscasc/funding/flas.html

The Linguistics Department offers its graduate students a minor financial incentive to apply for fellowships. The incentive consists of small department fellowship increases for people who apply and don't get the fellowship they apply for. Please visit the following site for more information: http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/gradadvise/incentiv.htm.

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Last Modified:  January 29, 2002