University of New Haven Scholarship 2026 - 75% Tuition

Two figures matter at graduate level. A Provost's Assistantship carries 75% tuition assistance plus an hourly wage, paid in exchange for up to 15 to 20 hours of departmental work a week, capped at 550 hours per academic year. A Dean's Scholarship provides up to 50% tuition assistance during your enrolment, with no work attached. Set them against the published price: graduate tuition for 2026-2027 is $1,185 per credit, and the university's own cost of attendance puts full-time graduate tuition at $21,330 for the year. Undergraduate merit awards at the main campus are quoted as dollar amounts instead, from $10,000 a year for the Charger Award up to $33,000 for the top of the Merit Based and Transfer Scholar ranges.

Yes. The university names full-time domestic and international master's students together in the eligibility line for both the Provost's Assistantship and the Dean's Scholarship, so an F-1 applicant is assessed on the same basis as a domestic one. The practical differences are in timing and cost rather than eligibility. International graduate admission works to 15 October for spring and 1 May for fall, the tuition deposit is $1,000 rather than $300, and student health insurance of $1,900 is mandatory for full-time international students and is not covered by either award.

For a spring 2027 start, the Provost's Assistantship priority one date is 1 October 2026 and priority two is 1 November 2026. The Dean's Scholarship dates need care, because the university publishes two different sets. The award's own page gives 15 October and 15 November for spring and 30 March and 1 May for fall. The graduate dates and deadlines page gives the same dates as the assistantship, 1 October and 1 November for spring and 1 March and 1 April for fall. Neither page looks out of date, so the sensible move is to work to the earlier date of the pair and have the packet complete by 1 October 2026. Confirm with graduate admissions on (203) 932-7440 if the difference decides your plan.

No. Both awards are decided from the admission packet, and the university states that interested students must complete their entire application packet for admission by the deadline for consideration. That is the whole mechanism. There is no scholarship essay, no separate portal and no second fee. What it does mean is that the ordinary application documents carry extra weight, particularly the statement of purpose and the resume, since those are what a department reads when it decides who gets its limited number of assistantships.

The university publishes no GPA threshold for either graduate award. Provost's Assistantships go to the highest achieving incoming graduate students and Dean's Scholarships follow a careful review of application material on academic merit, and that is as specific as the official wording gets. Undergraduate awards are firmer in places: the Transfer Scholar Award requires 12 completed credit hours and a minimum 3.0 GPA, and the Phi Theta Kappa award of $2,000 depends on honour society membership with a 3.0 cumulative average to keep it. Merit awards renew on the minimum cumulative GPA stated in your own award letter.

Graduate tuition for 2026-2027 is $1,185 per credit, effective 1 June 2026. The cost of attendance for a standard full-time graduate student taking nine credits a term puts tuition at $21,330, fees at $280 and a total of $42,124 living off campus or $50,610 living on campus. Undergraduate tuition and fees for the same year come to $51,270, with an estimated total cost of attendance of $76,230 for a resident student and $60,674 for a commuter. Those are the numbers a 75% or 50% tuition award is cutting into.

Applicants for full-time undergraduate admission to the main campus are considered automatically, with no special application for most awards. The Merit Based Scholarship runs $15,000 to $33,000 per academic year on high school performance, the Distinguished Scholar Award $16,000 to $22,000 and the Charger Award $10,000 to $15,000. Transfer students with 12 credit hours and a 3.0 GPA are considered for the Transfer Scholar Award at $15,000 to $33,000. Smaller awards sit on top for some students: $2,000 for Phi Theta Kappa members, $1,000 for the Honors Scholarship, $1,000 to $4,000 for a portfolio in art, design or music, $3,000 in the Pompea College of Business and $1,000 to $3,000 for the marching band. Each admitted student can hold a maximum of one merit scholarship, renewable for up to ten semesters and applied only to tuition. One caution when reading that page: it still refers to a First-Year Presidential Scholarship in passing while listing the Merit Based Scholarship instead, so ask admissions which name applies to your offer.

The Connecticut ones. The main campus is in West Haven, with programmes for working professionals at a New London site and a Graduate Business Campus in Orange. Undergraduate merit awards are specifically described as being for students enrolled in programmes at the main campus, and a separate route exists for graduating high school students from West Haven, who are offered a 50% tuition scholarship on their own terms that cannot be combined with the traditional merit awards. The university also runs a campus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on its own separate website, and that sits outside what this site covers.