
MFA Program	B.A. Program	How to Apply	Financial Aid	Contact Us

MFA Applicants

Students who complete their applications by February 1 will automatically be considered for graduate assistantships/teaching fellowships. These awards currently provide for tuition remission (except for fees, which are $394 per semester in 2005-2006) and a stipend of $7,600 for the fall and spring semesters. Full-time tuition (12 hours) for out-of-state students is $16,338 per year, making the total assistantship package worth nearly $24,000 (tuition for Georgia residents is $4,084 per year). For more information about costs for in-state and out-of-state tuition and fees, click here.

Currently, the MFA Program provides for 18 assistantships (we enroll only about 22-24 students in any given year, accepting 10-12 students per year for our two-year program). Students on assistantship are also able to apply for scholarships that can increase their annual stipend. ALL students, whether on assistantship or not, are eligible to apply for scholarships.

Teaching Fellowships require that students have at least 18 hours of graduate English credit before they are eligible to teach classes. Almost all of our students (whether or not they are awarded assistantships) have opportunities to teach in their second year.

For more details about graduate assistantships, scholarships, teaching fellowships, and loans, click here.

Undergraduate Applicants

Students applying to “Georgia’s Public Liberal Arts University” (rated the 18th best public university in the south in the Master’s category by U.S. News and World Report’s America’s Best Colleges 2005 issue) have several opportunities for financial aid, highlighted by the HOPE scholarship for Georgia state residents which pays for tuition and fees and provides an allowance for books (currently $150 per semester). Students who have a “B” average in high school, and maintain that average in college, are eligible for HOPE. Georgia’s best students, then, attend GCSU “tuition free.”

For information about in-state and out-of-state costs for tuition, fees, housing, meals, and books, click here.

ALL students (in-state or out-of-state) may apply for scholarships, grants, loans, and work-study funding. GCSU estimates that the per-year cost for a full-time, out-of-state student is about $22,000, considerably less than one would pay for a private liberal arts college, especially when any financial assistance is figured in. Few private colleges have undergraduate Creative Writing Programs that provide as many opportunities for students as you’ll find at GCSU.

For complete details, visit the GCSU Financial Aid web pages.

GCSU is a member of

The Association of Writers

and Writing Programs

One of only 20 member colleges nationwide

Creative Writing Program

Campus Box 44

Georgia College & State University

Milledgeville, GA 31061

English Office: (478) 445-4581

MFA Office: (478) 445-3509