Graduate Assistantships

Graduate assistantships offer degree-related experience and financial support for graduate students enrolled in the SDA master's program. These experiences are often an important factor when competing for positions after graduation. In order to be eligible for an assistantship, students must be admitted to Graduate School, enroll for a minimum of six credits per quarter during the time of their assistantship and make satisfactory progress toward their master's degree during their assistantship.

Graduate Assistants are typically employed from early-September to mid-June. Admission into the graduate program does not guarantee a graduate assistantship.

The Graduate Assistantship application is contained within the SDA program application; the deadline for both is December 1 for the following year. Admitted applicants will be invited to SDA Preview Days to be held at Seattle University.

The Preview Days for the 2018-19 academic year will be held on two different dates.
Group 1: February 21-22, 2019
Group 2: February 28-March 1, 2019

Apply for the 2018-19 academic year

Graduate Assistantship Positions

Below are some of the offices that typically employ graduate assistants. For a more complete list of offices as well as position descriptions of anticipated GAships coming available the 2018-2019 academic year, please click here. 

Albers School of Business and Economics 

• Undergraduate Academic Advisor

Career Services 

• Graduate Assistant for Career Services

Center for Service and Community Engagement   

• Coordinator for Student Leadership through Service
• Graduate Assistant for Service-Learning
• Coordinator for the Seattle University Youth Initiative K-12 Leadership Program

College of Arts and Sciences   

• Academic Advisor

Housing and Residence Life   

• Assistant Resident Director
• Graduate Assistant for Learning Communities 

International Student Center 

• Coordinator of International Student Life