OBJECTIVE

1. To offer scholarships to out-standing out-of-state students, both full and part-time, who are not eligible for most other scholarships and fee-waivers.

AWARD DETAILS

1. Up to thirty-five scholarships for full and part-time out-of-state students in selected programs will be available in this scholarship cycle.

ELIGIBILITY:

1. Out-of-state students
2. Must be a new graduate student during the first semester that the scholarship is awarded.
3. Admission to a graduate certificate or degree program
4. Full-time and part-time students
5. Students who have been awarded a graduate tuition scholarship or a graduate assistantship are not eligible for these scholarships
6. Students whose out-of-state tuition has been waived through the Border-County Waiver, the Academic Common Market, the fee waiver for out-of-state part-time students working full-time in Tennessee, or any other scholarship or waiver for out-of-state tuition are NOT eligible for these scholarships.
7. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and must be applying to a graduate program with growth capacity to be eligible. RODP programs are not eligible. Students in the following graduate programs will take preference:
   • Accounting
   • Allied Health, M.S.
   • Early Childhood, Ph.D.
   • MBA; AMBA
   • Nursing Ph.D.
   • Nurse Practitioner (MSN; RODP students are NOT eligible)
   • Special Education, M. Ed.
   • M.S. Technology
   • Certificate Programs:
   • Archival Studies
   • Biostatistics
   • Business Administration
   • Economic Development
   • Emerging Technologies
   • Entrepreneurial Leadership
   • Epidemiology
   • Gerontology
   • Health Care Management
   • Post-Master’s Nurse Practitioner Certificate (RODP certificate is not eligible)
   • Rural Health
   • Teaching English as a Second Language
   • Urban Planning
   • Forensic Document Examination (pending TBR final approval)

APPLICATION PACKET:

1. The application form can be found in the "Others" section of the School of Graduate Studies forms pages.

APPLICATION DEADLINE:

1. The application deadline for spring 2010 is Dec 1, 2009.
2. The application deadline for fall 2010 is July 1, 2010.