Economics Scholarships
Swenson and Wicks Scholarship in Economics
Criteria: To provide a scholarship to a Deserving graduate student in the master's program in economics. The recipient preferably will be a Montana resident, but if the most qualified student is from outside the state, he/she will be acceptable. The recipient must be fully admitted to the Economics' graduate program and must demonstrate strong interest and potential as an empirical economics researcher. The selection committee shall be the Department of Economics Graduate Committee. It is intended that this be only one meaningful award. While this is intended to be a scholarship and not a teaching assistantship, the donors' gifts in support of this fund are contingent upon the following conditions: (1) the number of academic year (2-semester) teaching assistantships allocated to economics shall remain at the current number of three or more, and (2) Economics shall continue to offer at least annually a seminar in empirical research design, which is to be open to undergraduates. Scholarship equals the standard minimum two-semester stipend that the UM Graduate School offers for a teaching assistantship in economics in the academic year the scholarship is awarded plus the cost of graduate in-state tuition and registration fees.
Scholarship Amount: Varies - approximately $13,400
David R. Paoli and Monica Conrad Paoli Economics Opportunity Fund
Criteria: Economics student.
Scholarship Amount: Varies - approximately $900
Martin and Rhoda Farris Scholarship in Economics
Scholarship Amount: Approximately $1,500
Criteria: Senior or graduate student at UM who is pursuing higher education in economics. The recipient must be considered by a faculty committee to have the greatest potential for graduate study or doctoral study* in economics. The recipient's name is to be engraved on a plaque bearing the scholarship name.
*Since the University of Montana Department of Economics does not currently have a doctoral program the recipient can be a senior or a graduate student who has been accepted for a doctoral program at an alternate institution.
