Steinhardt Fellows Program and Research Assistantships
NYU Steinhardt awards all students (including international students) who are offered full-time admission to our PhD programs a full funding and mentoring package. There is no separate application required. Although a small cohort of part-time doctoral students are admitted annually, part-time students do not receive funding.
The Steinhardt Fellows program is designed to help PhD students undertake full-time study and research, to participate in superior academic and scholarly experiences, and to complete their studies in a timely manner. Depending on the student's program of study and degree requirements, financial support includes two or three years of full tuition and fees and a generous living stipend of $26,000 through the completion of the student's required coursework, and one to three years with a $15,000 scholarship to support the development and completion of their dissertation. In addition, each of the School's academic departments has developed a set of benchmarks and milestones, such as conference presentations, exhibitions, authored manuscripts, grant submissions, and sample syllabi, that faculty mentors help their students achieve in order to prepare them academically and professionally for post-doctoral work.
Selected doctoral students may alternatively be appointed to a research assistantship. Research assistants are funded by external grants and work with a principal investigator on a funded research project. Unlike Steinhardt Fellows, research assistants agree to work 20 hours per week on an ongoing research project, typically with a team of faculty and other students. Steinhardt Fellows may become research assistants when Steinhardt faculty win funding for projects that require research assistance.
NYU Steinhardt awards all students (including international students) who are offered full-time admission to our PhD programs a full funding and mentoring package. There is no separate application required. Although a small cohort of part-time doctoral students are admitted annually, part-time students do not receive funding.
The Steinhardt Fellows program is designed to help PhD students undertake full-time study and research, to participate in superior academic and scholarly experiences, and to complete their studies in a timely manner. Depending on the student's program of study and degree requirements, financial support includes two or three years of full tuition and fees and a generous living stipend of $26,000 through the completion of the student's required coursework, and one to three years with a $15,000 scholarship to support the development and completion of their dissertation. In addition, each of the School's academic departments has developed a set of benchmarks and milestones, such as conference presentations, exhibitions, authored manuscripts, grant submissions, and sample syllabi, that faculty mentors help their students achieve in order to prepare them academically and professionally for post-doctoral work.
Selected doctoral students may alternatively be appointed to a research assistantship. Research assistants are funded by external grants and work with a principal investigator on a funded research project. Unlike Steinhardt Fellows, research assistants agree to work 20 hours per week on an ongoing research project, typically with a team of faculty and other students. Steinhardt Fellows may become research assistants when Steinhardt faculty win funding for projects that require research assistance.