{"id":300,"date":"2014-07-24T17:46:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T17:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate_studies\/?page_id=300"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:15:25","slug":"guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate-studies\/graduate-student-resources\/guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Assistantships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">91̽»¨ awards a limited number of funding opportunities for qualified graduate students to help fund their education.\u00a0 Students&#8217; undergraduate cumulative GPA must be 2.75 or higher.\u00a0 To maintain a graduate assistantship, a cumulative GPA of 3.0 at the graduate level must be maintained.<\/p>\n<h2><strong style=\"font-size: 1.2rem;line-height: 1.4\"><em>Graduate Assistant Positions<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Academic Year (2026\u20132027)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate-studies\/graduate-student-resources\/guidelines\/a-c-clark-library-graduate-assistantship\/\">A.C. Clark Library<br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/10\/GA-Policies-2025-12-4-Approved-M-and-C.pdf\">GA Guidelines<\/a> \u00a0&#8211; learn more about academic requirements<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Assistantships are financed from the general university budget, department funds, or external grants, which could affect student loan eligibility. <strong>Students seeking federal loans from the F<\/strong><strong>inancial Aid office for additional costs may find the total amount they can borrow reduced by the tuition assistance of their graduate assistantship.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The School of Graduate Studies designates that six graduate credit hours per semester is a full-time load for graduate assistants.\u00a0If GAs wish to receive financial aid beyond a graduate assistantship, they will need to enroll in a minimum of six graduate credits per semester<strong>. GAs are encouraged to contact the <a title=\"Financial details\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/mybsu\/finances\/aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Financial Aid office<\/a> directly for complete information.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/03\/CURRENT-Blue-Form-GA-Appointment-Form.pdf\">Blue GA Appointment Form<\/a><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This is for faculty use when finalizing the appointment of a newly hired GA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>91̽»¨ awards a limited number of funding opportunities for qualified graduate students to help fund their education.\u00a0 Students&#8217; undergraduate cumulative GPA must be 2.75 or higher.\u00a0 To maintain a graduate assistantship, a cumulative GPA of 3.0 at the graduate level must be maintained. Graduate Assistant Positions Academic Year (2026\u20132027) A.C. Clark Library GA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"parent":2963,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-300","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4346,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300\/revisions\/4346"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}