Students admitted to the doctoral program receive a graduate research/teaching assistantship and waiver of graduate tuition for a maximum of four years, conditional on satisfactory performance, as determined by a member of the PhD program faculty.
What to know
- Funding: Students may receive up to $31,000 in annual funding. The assistantship stipend for Fall 2026 is $25,000 per year, supplemented by a potential $6,000 faculty-supervised summer research assistantship.
- Cost of living: 91社区 is , 48% lower than Boston, and 83% lower than San Francisco.
- Tuition: For PhD students who receive the full scholarship, tuition and broad-based fees will be covered for up to four years.
- Assistantships: Funded students are required to assist faculty with teaching or research for 20 hours per week.
- Conference travel: Funding opportunities are available for research presentations.
- Scholarship eligibility: Will be reviewed annually based on academic and assistantship performance.
- SOM policy does not permit funding recipients to take on any other work (paid or unpaid)
without prior approval from the concentration coordinator, PhD program director, and
SOM Dean. This policy applies to the fall, spring, and summer terms each year.