Most entering graduate students are granted financial assistance, typically directly from the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering. Sources of aid include research or teaching assistantships, industrial fellowships, and grants and scholarships available through the university. Stipends to graduate students are very competitive nationally. The School makes effort to support graduate students making satisfactory progress toward their degree.

Our tuition costs are figured per credit hour and based on a resident and nonresident system. Each course is for a certain number of credit hours. Oklahoma residents pay the resident portion of tuition plus fees and expenses. Non-residents pay both the resident and non-resident porition of tuition plus fees and expenses.

Financial assistance is available for most Chemical Engineering graduate students. Grants, fellowships, and teaching and research assistantships typically range from $14,000 to $20,000 per year. Students who have their undergraduate degree in chemistry or a similar area may receive assistance beginning at $14,000 per year while students possessing a chemical engineering degree typically receive $20,000 per year. Assistantships typically include some non-resident and resident tuition waivers. Oklahoma residents usually receive a partial in-state tuition waiver. A student is automatically considered for financial assistance if requested; however not necessarily will all students admitted receive financial assistance.

Tuition waivers currently are up to nine hours of out-of-state tuition for the fall and spring semesters plus seven hours of in-state tuition. Out-of-state tuition waivers for the summer semester is typically four hours. Typical loads for entering graduate students are 9 hours in the fall and spring, and three hours for the summer. Many Graduate Assistants also receive waivers of the basic Student Health Insurance. Information and forms about the tuition waivers is available on the Graduate College web pages at http://gradweb.ou.edu and information about the health insurance waiver is available through the Office of Human Resources web page at http://hr.ou.edu/. The tuition, fees and waivers are set by the Board of Regents and may be changed. After the tuition and health care waivers, a non-resident graduate student would have expenses of tuition, books, fees and parking typically around $5,300 for the year (not including housing).

Information about tuition and fees can be found on the Bursar's web site. This site also has a link to estimate the cost for attending graduate school at OU and the benefit of the waivers.