What proportion of the entering class is awarded financial aid, and what are the terms of aid?
NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences provides for full financial aid for every entering Ph.D. student for a minimum of five years (conditional on satisfactory academic performance). Typically, the first 3 years of this financial aid package is pure fellowship, and the remaining 2 years must be spent as a TA or an RA.
NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences provides for full financial aid for every full-time entering Ph.D. student for five years, conditional on satisfactory academic performance. (See below for adjustments if you have an external scholarship.) It includes payment of tuition, coverage under an NYU health insurance plan, and an academic-year stipend and a one-time $1,000 start-up stipend award. This is an extraordinary financial aid package, if we may say so ourselves. Unlike most other university scholarships, you are not required to teach under the NYU fellowship. If you teach as an adjunct during the time you are here, you will receive additional payment for that activity. The fellowship does not require you to be a research assistant either, but you are encouraged to spend one or more years being a research assistant (this will only happen by bilateral consent between you and the professor you wish to assist). For every year you spend as a full time assistant, you will receive a
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