Financial Aid Information

All applicants admitted to the doctoral program receive full financial support. The Department aims to allow students as much freedom as is possible in choosing research directions, subject to the interests and expertise of the faculty who are available to oversee the work.

We encourage students to seek their own external funding since often the award is prestigious (e.g., NSF or Hertz) or the source provides an opportunity to make professional connections (e.g., an industrial fellowship). The Department supplements the stipends of students with an outside fellowship to meet (and usually exceed) the stipends of students with internal funding. To any student whose spouse earns less than $200 per month, the Department pays a dependency allowance that is 10% of the student's SCS monthly stipend per dependent.