• Graduate assistants must be admitted into a graduate degree program that allows the student to receive a waiver of University tuition. See the section on waiver restrictions.
• Graduate assistants must have a 2.75 minimum GPA. In addition, graduate assistants must be and remain in good academic standing in their degree program.
  
• Non-degree graduate students are not eligible for graduate assistantships.
  
• Provisional graduate students may hold assistantships only with the approval of their Associate Dean.
• Graduate assistants may not hold more than the total equivalent of one assistantship.
  
• A student may not hold both an assistantship and a fellowship.
  
• See the section on Additional Employment for restrictions on additional employment beyond 20 hours per week. Partial graduate assistants may be simultaneously employed in one WVU hourly student worker position for up to 10 hours per week.
  
• Graduate teaching assistants from non-English-speaking countries must pass the TrueNorth Test. More information on the test can be found from the English Language Learning Institute.
• See the section on Enrollment Requirements.