Financial Aid For Continuing Students

Application forms

Application form for students in the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics and History of Art

Application form for students in Chemistry, Math, and Physics

Application form for students in Clinical Developmental Psychology

Application form for students in French

Application form for students in Russian

Application form for Curatorial Internship

Curatorial Internship FAQ

The GSAS offers the following forms of financial aid: Fellowships (stipends of $14,000 or more), Grants (smaller stipends), Research Fellowships (stipends of $14,500), Teaching Assistantships (stipends of $13,500 requiring up to 17.5 hours of grading, lab instruction, discussion section or other assigned duties each week), Graduate Assistantships, Tuition Awards, and summer stipends.  Not all forms of aid are available to students in every department.

Applications for financial aid must be made on one of the forms downloadable here or available on paper in the GSAS office.  Read the form carefully and fill in all of the requested information.  Incomplete forms and late applications cannot be considered by the Committee on Graduate Awards.  Applications for some awards, including Travel Fellowships, Curatorial or Exhibitions Internships, and Whiting Fellowships in the Humanities, require supplemental application forms or other material.

The deadline for aid applications is January 14, 2008.

All forms of aid are assigned annually, and all students must apply each year for financial aid for the year following, even if they hold an award guaranteed for multiple years.   For students with multi-year awards renewal of aid is automatic if their departments confirm their satisfactory progress in the preceding academic year, but to obtain this confirmation students must submit an application for aid. Financial aid is awarded by the GSAS on the basis of departmental recommendations and approval of the recommendations by the Committee on Graduate Awards, comprising three members of the Graduate Council and the Dean.  In some cases, budgetary constraints make it impossible to approve every departmental recommendation, but whenever possible the GSAS honors implicit commitments to students who have been aided initially, whose work has been continuously meritorious and who are making good progress.  The Committee on Graduate Awards has a general policy of restricting students to no more than 7 years on financial aid. Exceptions to this policy must be justified on the student's behalf in the departmental recommendation.

Dean's Fellowships are for students belonging to underrepresented American ethnic or racial minorities.  Dean's Fellowships may be guaranteed for up to four years and include a summer stipend. No special application form is required, but to be eligible students must self-identify as belonging to a particular minority.

Marguerite N. Farley Fellowships are for students who are not from the U.S. Students who wish to be considered for this fellowship should state their country of origin and their citizenship on the application form.

Teaching Assistantships and summer stipends are available to students in the Departments of Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics from their first year onward.  Teaching Assistantships provide stipends in exchange for a maximum of 17.5 hours of work per week in departmentally assigned teaching duties, and normally include a Partial Tuition Award covering 4 units per year (2 per semester).  Four units is the maximum course load permitted to a TA. Teaching Assistantships are renewable annually on the basis of departmental recommendation.   In the science programs Teaching Assistantships typically are accompanied by summer stipends for the summer following the year of the Assistantship.  Departments vary in this practice, however, so students should be sure to check with their departmental advisor about procedures.  Teaching Assistantships are also offered in the Departments of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology (2 per year), Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies (1 per year), History of Art (5 per year), French (1 per year), and Russian (2 per year). In these programs Teaching Assistantships are often reserved to advanced students.

Research Fellowships are available to advanced students in Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics.  Up to three such awards are given each year.

Graduate Assistantships are available in the Departments of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and History of Art.  One is awarded in each department each year.  Graduate Assistantships provide stipends in exchange for a maximum of 17.5 hours of work per week in departmentally assigned non-teaching duties, for example in the library or the College collections. They normally include a Partial Tuition Award covering 4 units per year (2 per semester).

Students in the program in Clinical Developmental Psychology are eligible for an aid package comprising Partial Tuition Awards, full or partial Teaching Assistantships, and occasional summer stipends that ultimately covers two-thirds of the required tuition costs and provides some stipend money.  For details please consult the graduate advisor in that program.

Tuition Awards cover the tuition charges for 6 units of coursework (3 each semester), which is a full-time course load except for Teaching Assistants. Partial Tuition Awards cover any number of units fewer than 6, or the fee for continuing enrollment (CE).

Travel Fellowships, including Fanny Bullock Workman Traveling Fellowship, are intended to fund travel for dissertation research.  They carry slightly higher stipends than regular fellowships to help with associated costs.  Applications for Travel Fellowships must be accompanied by a description of the project, an itinerary, a budget, a schedule for completion, and a letter of endorsement from the applicant's dissertation director.

Students in the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics and History of Art may apply for Curatorial or Exhibitions Internships.  These internships are for advanced students. They carry stipends of $16,000 ($14,000 plus a summer stipend of $2000) and permit up to 17.5 hours per week working on supervised projects in the Bryn Mawr College Collections for one semester and in one of five participating institutions for a second semester.  The participating institutions are: the American Philosophical Society, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.  Supplementary application forms are required for these awards.  Applications will be reviewed by the steering committee of the Graduate Group, which will nominate up to two students for each award to the Committee on Graduate Awards.

Other fellowships and grants for students in the Graduate Group are:

Bryne-Rubel Grants, for students in Latin, Greek or Archaeology, to support study outside the U.S. or students in Latin resident at Bryn Mawr (if applying for this award to support travel, students should submit the same supplementary material as for other Travel Fellowships); Ella Riegel Fellowships or Grants, to support the work of advanced students in Classical & Near Eastern Archaeology; Theodore N. Ely Grants, for students in Classical & Near Eastern Archaeology or History of Art.

Nominations for the Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowships in the Humanities may be made of students who will be in their final dissertation year.  Applicants must submit a proposal which describes the dissertation project and the work accomplished at time of application, and includes a timetable for completion of the dissertation within the following academic year.  Dissertations should be described in a style accessible to non-specialists as well as specialists. The proposal should be accompanied by a letter from the dissertation director which discusses the qualifications and preparation of the student, the merits of the research project, and the feasibility of completing the dissertation by May or December 2009.  Departments are requested to nominate no more than two outstanding candidates.  The selection of Whiting Fellows is made by the Committee on Graduate Awards.