How Many Graduate Students are at the NIH?
Student Community The NIH has over 320 graduate students from 70 universities doing dissertation research in the 21 institutes and centers. The NIH partnerships accept 50-75 new graduate students each year. Graduating students recommend the NIH to other graduate students and prospective students, citing the unparallel resources and highly supportive experts available to them. In future years, the goal is to increase the number of graduate students at NIH to ~500. Infrastructure Support for Students The GPP recognizes that graduate students at NIH do not experience the typical educational experience as students completing their Ph.D. within the university laboratories. To ensure that the NIH graduate students receive similar training experiences a series of orientation, workshops, and symposium events are scheduled annually to the university.
