Financial Information

Doctoral students are admitted to the program with the assurance of financial support for the full duration of their graduate career. Initially, this takes the form of a graduate assistantship, which provides a stipend and tuition remission. Graduate assistants are required to fulfill a teaching assignment, usually supervision of undergraduate lab or recitation sections. A number of University fellowships, scholarships and assistantships are also available on a competitive basis to support students. After assignment to an individual laboratory to complete their dissertation research, students are expected to be supported through individual grants, training grants or other sources of individual research support provided by their mentors.

Graduate students are also strongly encouraged to actively seek their own external fellowship support. Such awards are available from a variety of Federal (National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health), private (Howard Hughes Foundation), public, charitable and industrial sources. Students are also eligible to apply for numerous small grants that provide research costs, travel and other project funding. Information on such financial support is maintained by the Department (Coordinator of Student Advisement). Also, the GSAS Office of Student Affairs and Academic Services (One Half Fifth Avenue; web site, http://www.nyu.edu/gsas) is an important source of information on both extramural and intramural financial assistance. Refer to the Graduate School of Arts and Science Bulletin for additional financial aid information.

Masters students are generally not eligible for departmental financial aid, although some graduate student assistantships may be awarded to Masters candidates when sufficient funding is available. Masters students who are employed may find that they are eligible for tuition remission benefits from their employer.

Students on probation are not eligible for departmental financial aid.

Tuition remission provided through assistantship and fellowship covers the tuition per point that each student registers for each semester; however, all students must pay the nonrefundable registration, services, and academic support fee which is charged per point. Tuition for the 2002-2003 academic year is $855 per point, plus additional nonrefundable registration and service fees.

Stipends are for 11 months but are paid over the 9 month academic year. Students may receive one extra summer month stipend, paid by their thesis advisor when funds are available.