Various options for financial assistance are available to international graduate students at Central Michigan University. Departmental graduate assistantships, and CGS master's Fellowships, are awarded on a competitive basis and grant Michigan resident tuition. Doctoral and master's fellowships specifically for the departments of History, Mathematics and Psychology are also offered. Departmental assistantships and Fellowships have application deadlines early in the calendar year. Fellowships and full-time assistantships are generally awarded for one academic year (two semesters: fall and spring); stipend payments begin in the fall semester of each year.