# Funding

**Source**: https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/gss/funding/srs/
**Parent**: https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/apply/funding/

- [Graduate Student Support](https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/gss/)
- [Funding](https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/gss/funding/)
- [Supplemental Retention Scholarship](https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/gss/funding/srs/)

# Funding

- [Graduate Student Support](https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/gss/)
- [Funding](https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/gss/funding/)
- [FAMU Feeder Fellowship](https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/gss/funding/famu/)
- [Grinter Fellowship](https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/gss/funding/grinter/)
- [James W. Kynes Scholarship](https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/gss/funding/kynes/)
- [Karen A. Holbroook Graduate Research Endowment](https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/gss/funding/holbrook/)
- [Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship](https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/gss/funding/lockhart/)
- [McNair Doctoral Program](https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/gss/funding/mcnair/)
- [Supplemental Retention Scholarship](https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/gss/funding/srs/)

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## Supplemental Retention Scholarship

The UF Graduate School’s **Supplemental Retention Scholarship (SRS)** has long been a lifeline to get PhD and MFA Grad Gators over the finish line — by providing much-needed tuition relief to those in that final stage of dissertation or final project during their graduating semester when they have exhausted their funding contract.

##### Details

- This scholarship funds **three credit hours** (in fall and spring) and **two credit hours** (in summer) of **in-state tuition.**

##### Eligibility & Requirements

- You must be in their final semester and due to graduate.
- You must have exhausted your funding (such as department or college fellowships, assistantships or other funding).
- You must have been on a graduate assistant appointment or fellowship for at least three years prior.
- You cannot be employed as a UF TEAM employee or in a UF adjunct position.
- You can be employed as a student assistant or in an OPS position, but for no more than $15 an hour.
- You must have a degree application on file with the Registrar’s Office.
- You must meet the dissertation first submission deadline for the semester in which you are due to graduate. **Note:** The scholarship award will be released after the first submission deadline.
- You must include with their application a personal statement explaining why you could not complete your dissertation with the time frame of your funding.
- Your academic unit must supply a letter of support that explains why it can no longer fund you and why you did not complete your dissertation in the time frame of funding.
- You must include with your application a research plan with milestones, advising check-ins, and courses for which you will register to wrap up the semester with graduation. **See:** [Dissertation Research Action Plan](https://success.grad.ufl.edu/media/successgradufledu/pdf/Dissertation-Research-Action-Plan.pdf).
- You can only receive this scholarship once.

##### Deadlines & Critical Dates

- The application cycle for this scholarship is now open. The deadline to apply for it is **Friday, March 20, 2026.**

##### Application & Instructions

- [Click here for Summer 2026 Supplmental Retention Scholarship Application](https://graduateschool.ufl.edu/media/gradufledu/pdf/srs-app.pdf).

##### Questions?

- Email the **Graduate School Prestigious Awards** at [gradawards@aa.ufl.edu](mailto:gradawards@aa.ufl.edu).