As a University of Maine System employee, one of the many benefits available is a tuition waiver for undergraduate, graduate, and English language courses for employees and dependents. Depending on the employees’ collective bargaining unit and employment status, the number of credits covered may range between 1 and 8 credits per semester for employees. Dependents of employees may receive a waiver for 25-60% of the total tuition costs in a UMS program depending on the nature of the employee’s appointment. For the full details, navigate to the UMS Tuition Waiver Benefit information. 

In addition to tuition support, the Graduate Student Government (GSG) offers competitive grants for individual graduate students for degree-related costs and for traveling to present research or creative work. As a result, employees undertaking graduate degree work can benefit from the grant opportunities as well. 
To apply for a graduate program, navigate to umaine.edu/graduate/apply and create an account for the online application portal. At this time, employees are not issued an application fee waiver, please refer to our FAQ website for eligible fee waivers. The available graduate programs offered at UMaine can be found on our website here, however, the University of Maine System does offer other graduate programs through many of the other UMS campuses, a full list may be found here.