Renewing Financial Support
Information for Continuing Students
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) offers many forms of financial support, including Fellowships, Teaching Assistantships, Graduate Assistantships, Tuition Awards, Health Insurance Subsidy, and Supplemental Summer Support (SSRF and RA). A Dean’s Fellowship, to be designated for students during their final year of dissertation writing or to help support minority students, is available in each of the six programs admitting new students. The two competitive named fellowships, Doris Sill Carland Fellowship and Marguerite N. Farley Fellowship, are also open to students in all six GSAS programs, each with its specific criteria. In addition, various discipline-specific endowed fellowships are available for students who meet the award criteria.
Please read the descriptions of awards available in your program:
Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art
Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics
Tuition Waivers
Tuition waivers (in the form of Course Units, Units of Supervised Work, and Continuing Enrollment) are a form of financial support and must be included in your yearly application for financial support. They also must match your registration for the semester in which they are intended. If you register differently from your award, a bill will be generated for those units that have not been awarded to you. If a change is needed after an award has been made, the Director of Graduate Studies in your department should contact the GSAS office on your behalf. Click to learn more about GSAS tuitions.
Supplemental Summer Support
GSAS Travel/Research Funds
GSAS Students may apply for up to $1000 each academic year from the GSAS office to cover some of the costs of travel to present at conferences or further their research. Please click here for more information.
External Funding
Graduate students in recent years have also won external support for their studies. Others have arranged part-time or full-time study while working in industrial positions where the employer-provided tuition support or partial stipend support. Advanced graduate students have also been supported through faculty research grants from the NSF. Click the link below to learn more information about outside support.