Financial Aid & Billing
Financial aid is available for regular, full-time or part-time graduate students. This section provides information to help you navigate available forms of aid when planning for your graduate education expenses.
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Billing Information
The Bursar's Office generates billing statements. For more information and to confirm payment deadlines, please visit the Bursar's Office website.
Graduate Payment Plan
Lehigh offers a payment plan that enables you to spread each semester’s educational expenses over three installments.This optional plan is extremely popular with our students.
Payment Deferral
If your graduate tuition at Lehigh University is reimbursed to you by your employer, you can request a deferment of the payment of your graduate tuition.
Assistantship Positions
Research assistantships (RAs), graduate assistantships (GAs), fellowships, and scholarships are academic awards offered by the University, academic departments and by the Dean’s Office. See Opportunities
Financial Aid
Our Office of Financial Aid is available to assist graduate students with obtaining aid.
Scholarships
The College and Department of Education & Human Services allocate scholarship awards to the academic programs. These scholarships are disbursed on needs-basis, seniority-basis, or merit-basis (left to the discretion of the program faculty). Top priority for student scholarship funding is given to full-time doctoral students. Additional information may be found below.
College Scholarship Awards
- The Thomas/Brucker Endowed Minority Doctoral Scholarship
- The Villas & Woodring Master's Scholarship
- The Lewis R. Shupe III Endowed Doctoral Assistantship
- Multicultural Resource Center Graduate Assistantship
- Dean's Graduate Assistantship
- Associate Dean's Graduate Assistantship
- Department Chair's Graduate Assistantship
- Associate Chair's Graduate Assistantship
More information about the COE Graduate Assistantship policy may be found in the Departmental Handbook
COE students may also apply to assistantship positions throughout Lehigh’s campus. Compensation is determined by the department/office where the position is held.
Funding Opportunities
Assistance for students:
- Tuition scholarship (doctoral students only)
- Graduate assistanceship (GA)
- Grant opportunities
- Research assistant (RA) (tuition credits plus stipend)
- Personnel preparation/training grants
Centennial School:
Full or part-time salary plus tuition: Full-time work opportunities (with part-time tuition credits) are available at Centennial School, an approved private school and outreach consultation program for students who have intense emotional and behavioral needs. Graduate students are typically employed as full-time teachers, although other part-time experiences are sometimes available (e.g., job coaches). Full or part-time salary plus tuition.
We encourage you to visit Lehigh's Office of Financial Aid for additional information and resources for financing your graduate education.
Special note to international students
Visa regulations require that international applicants have sufficient funds available for their program of study. Please visit this page for information that will help you estimate your expenses.
We encourage prospective international students to visit the Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS). This office provides support services to all international students, scholars, and their families while at Lehigh University. Their office offers a variety of services, including: immigration advising. OISS serves as a resource center, and offers social and cultural programming for the entire Lehigh community.