Financial Support
Ways to help finance your graduate education
The University provides a variety of opportunities to help graduate students pay for their education. In fact, the majority of doctoral students at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ receive significant financial support—often enough to fully cover tuition and living expenses.
Learn more about financial aid, funding, and award opportunities below.
Financial aid overview
Financial aid is typically awarded to graduate students by individual departments, schools, and colleges. This is done on the basis of academic promise. We encourage you to consult the website for your academic department of interest to better understand your options.
In addition, some financial aid options are included as part of the admissions process. Applications for a variety of applicable scholarships, assistantships, and traineeships are made available to you as you apply.
For more information, reference the Financial Aid and Bursar websites below.

additional resources
PhD student financial support
The Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ has introduced two new programs designed to help support our full-time PhD student community:
Explore our PhD Students page for additional details and other PhD student-specific resources.
Understand your financial package
Visit our Graduate Student Appointments page to better understand job codes, job categories, and tax details.

Help support University fellowships
The Ä¢¹½´«Ã½â€™s schools and departments invest scarce operating funds to support our PhD students—funds that are already stretched thin by faculty and staff salaries. Because resources are constrained, programs must limit the number of PhD students they can accept.
Your help can make a significant difference, as our ability to attract the best and brightest students depends significantly on the financial packages we can provide them.
To learn more about giving to Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ fellowships, contact:
Jack Kreckel
Senior Associate Vice President
University Advancement
(585) 273-5904
You can also download our PhD fellowships brochure for more information.