Affordability and Funding

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Think your dream of a graduate or professional degree is out of reach? There are a variety of ways your higher education can become reality.

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Estimated Costs of Attendance

You can use our tables to estimate how much your graduate degree program will cost. Graduate program funding options can help you cover the cost of tuition, fees, research and other expenses.

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Graduate Program Funding

We offer a number of assistantships, fellowships, grants and awards to make our graduate programs more affordable.

Assistantships

A graduate assistantship can provide funding for your degree as well as valuable, hands-on experience.

Learn about assistantships

Awards

Each academic year graduate programs nominate students for three School of Graduate Studies awards, which come with a monetary prize.

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Grants

We provide several types of grants for graduate students to cover the costs associated with research and traveling to present.

Apply for grants

Fellowships

University-based fellowships are awarded to graduate students in a range of studies.

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More Funding Sources

Student Story

Macy Baugh, B.A./M.D. '27

"Being awarded the scholarship motivates me to be the best student I can be and eventually the best physician I can be."

Victor E. Dominguez, M.D. Memorial Scholarship

University of Missouri-Kansas city

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