Financial Assistance
- Texas A&M University offers many financial aid options to help pay tuition and fees including scholarships, loans, grants and work-study programs.
- Tuition and fees are determined by Texas A&M Student Business Services.
“For a better understanding of your total cost of attendance (COA), please visit our cost and tuition rates webpage (https://aggie.tamu.edu/billing-and-payments/cost-and-tuition-rates). This webpage will provide you with an opportunity to review estimated COA information for undergraduate, graduate and professional students, as well as other resources such as the tuition calculator and billing and fee explanations.”
Undergraduate
Special Education undergraduate students are eligible to receive any of three dedicated scholarships:
- State of Texas Special Education Recruitment and Retention Grant Scholarships
- Glenn G. & Sharon L. Gibson Scholarship
- Andrea E. McKenna ’08 Memorial Scholarship
Students in the Bilingual Education program are also eligible for the following scholarships:
- TEACH Grant Program
- Texas Educational Aide Exemption
- Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund
- The Gates Millennium Scholar Program
Graduate
Graduate Merit (GM) and Graduate Diversity (GD) Fellowships are university fellowships that are only open to U.S. citizens and first-time doctoral students.
These are highly prestigious and coveted awards. The department has to be able to contribute resources to both of these fellowships, so we are limited in the number of students that we can nominate for these awards. As such, our programs only select a few individuals to be nominated every year.
Grad Merit
Funding Summary
$25,000 – Fellowship Stipend – 1st year
$36,000 – Payment toward Resident Tuition and fees ($9,000.00/ year for 4 years)
$2,112 – One year Insurance reimbursement
$63,112 – Total Package
Grad Diversity
Funding Summary
$54,000 – Fellowship Stipend ($18,000/ year for 3 years)
$27,000 – Payment toward Resident Tuition and fees ($9,000.00/ year for 3 years)
$22,707 – Graduate Assistantship ($7,569/ year for 3 years)
$103,707 – Total Package
Heather Bradley Scholarship
- First-year students in Special Education, School Counseling and School Psychology
- $1,000 (minimum) per academic year
The majority of EPSY graduate students have GA positions either with the department, a grant or research project, or another department at Texas A&M University. Many GA positions available in EPSY are course supported and are usually filled by more experienced students; however, a GA position is not guaranteed. Non-departmental Graduate assistantship (GA) opportunities may be posted on Jobs for Aggies.
If an out-of-state student is awarded any competitive Texas A&M scholarship or fellowship of $1,000.00 or more, the student will be allowed to pay in-state tuition rates for the academic year, which can provide an overall savings of $7,000 -$10,000 over the course of the academic year.