Academics

PhD Program

Financial Aid

Several forms of financial aid are available for graduate students: traineeships, fellowships, scholarships, research and teaching assistantships, and loans. Most of these awards will cover the cost of tuition. Advanced Opportunity Fellowships are available for qualified minority or economically disadvantaged nonminority students.

The School of Nursing is committed to funding full-time students admitted into the PhD program. Doctoral students have priority for teaching and research assistantships administered by the School of Nursing. Research assistantships are funded by faculty research grants and by School of Nursing gift funds.

Funding decisions are made once a year in the spring semester for the following academic year. Continuing and newly admitted students are encouraged to apply for funding.

Students in this program also have been successful in competing for federal National Research Service Awards (NRSA) which are individual predoctoral fellowships. The School of Nursing also has a funded institutional NRSA, a research training grant to study patient-centered interventions. This training project funds both predoctoral traineeships and postdoctoral fellowships.