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Graduate Applications
Students interested in applying for admission
to any of the Department of History's graduate programs must request an
application packet from the College of
Graduate Studies, on which more information can be found
here. Students applying
specifically to the Joint M.A./Ph.D. program must also submit an Application for
Admission and Funding, which can be downloaded below.
Applications for admission to the Traditional
M.A. program are due by July 15 for Fall semester admission and November 1 for
Spring semester admission.
Applications for admission and funding for the Joint M.A./Ph.D. program are due
by January 3 for the following Fall semester
admission.
***Please Note: for students applying to the Traditional M.A. program, please
include in your statement of interest the following information: what specific
fields of history you are interested in (e.g., Renaissance Europe, colonial
America, modern Middle East, etc.); what foreign language preparation you have,
if any; and information on any specific research projects you have worked on.***
Graduate Funding
For Traditional M.A. students, the Department
of History offers graduate assistantships requiring twenty hours or work in an
assigned course for tuition and salary. In conjunction with the College of
Graduate Studies. the Department also offers a Masters Research Fellowship for
one M.A. student awarded on a competitive basis. Applications for
funding are due January 3, with decisions/notifications by March.
For students in the Joint M.A./Ph.D. program,
the Department provides all students with funding for up to four years for
students holding a bachelor's degree upon entrance to the program. For
students entering with a master's degree, the department provides funding for up
to three years. Funding will consist of various graduate assistantships
and fellowships as determined by the department. Guarantees of funding are
contingent upon students making successful and satisfactory progress toward the
completion of their degrees and on their successful performance as graduate or
research assistants. Applications for funding are due January 3, with
decisions/notifications by March.
For students in both the Traditional M.A. and
the Joint M.A./Ph.D. programs, the College of Graduate Studies, in conjunction
with the State of Michigan, also operates the Martin Luther King, Jr./César
Chávez/Rosa Parks Future Faculty Program. This program provides fellowship
awards to select minority students (targeting primarily African American,
Latino, and Native American students) enrolled in a graduate degree program at
CMU.
In addition to assistantship/fellowship funding,
small grants for research, publication, and presentation are available on a
competitive basis from the College of Graduate Studies, forms for which are
available from the Department of History Office or the
College of Graduate Studies.
Graduate students may also be eligible for
several small grants and scholarships for research, presentation, and
publication from the College of Humanities,
Social, and Behavioral Sciences, forms and further information for which can
be found on the college website located
here.
Currently funded graduate students must submit an Application for Continuation
of Funding demonstrating their current progress in their program of study.
This form is due January 15, and can be downloaded below.
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