Graduate Assistantships
Graduate assistants provide research, instructional, and administrative support to Loyola's faculty and administration. Graduate assistants can spend up to 20 hours per week in their assistantship or fellowship role and devote the remainder of their time to their academic pursuits. This combination of service, study, research, and teaching (when applicable) constitutes a full-time commitment. Assistantships and fellowships are competitive positions that are highly sought after. They present a rewarding opportunity for you to participate in a vibrant academic community.
Loyola offers a number of assistantships to new and continuing graduate students in a wide range of professional areas. Graduate Research Assistants (GRA), Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTA), and Graduate Residence Coordinators (GRC) are eligible to receive a bi-weekly stipend and a scholarship, which is applied at the start of your assistantship contract. This combination of stipend and scholarship is typically split 50/50 to provide you the greatest pre-tax benefit. Other administrative graduate assistant positions are paid on an hourly basis.
Only those graduate students who are in a degree seeking program are eligible to apply for a graduate assistantship.
Assistantships become available at the end of the current term as students holding positions complete their academic programs. The positions available each year include the following:
- Academic Affairs: Center for Academic Services and Advising, Center for Community, Service, & Justice, Institutional Research, Service Learning
- Loyola College: Psychology (Teaching Fellows and Graduate Assistants), Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Theology Graduate Assistants
- School of Education
- Student Development: ALANA Student Services, Assistant to the Dean of Students, Campus Ministries, Disability Support Services, Health Services, Leadership Development, Orientation, Recreation and Wellness, Residence Life & Housing (Graduate Residence Coordinators), Student Services Programming, Women's Center
- Administration: Alumni Affairs, Evergreen Fund, Institutional Research
Candidates interested in submitting an application for consideration are encouraged to contact the sponsoring department. Review Graduate Assistant opportunities through Handshake. If you are unable to create a Handshake account, Graduate Assistant opportunities can be viewed here.
Graduate Assistantship Resources
For Graduate Assistantship Supervisors
Once the supervisor initiates the hiring process in Workday, new student employees will receive onboarding tasks through Workday. Access the Student Employment Teams Site for supervisor resources. Contact Human Resources at studentjobs@loyola.edu if you need to request access.