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INFORMATION FOR

    Financial Support

    We provide a stipend ($51,046 in 2024-25), full tuition coverage, free health insurance to you and your family, and discounted dental insurance (beginning in the fall of 2024). This financial aid package is provided to all BBS students independent of citizenship. If you win a competitive outside award such as an NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA) or NSF fellowship you will receive a stipend bonus of $4,000 (for a total stipend of $55,046 in 2024-25).

    Gruber Science Fellowship

    About the Fellowship

    Established in 2011 by the Gruber Foundation, the Gruber Science Fellowship is awarded to the most highly ranked applicants to Yale PhD programs in the life sciences, cosmology, and astrophysics. This Fellowship is the most prestigious award offered by Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to incoming science students in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments and exceptional promise.

    Gruber Science Fellows receive a stipend supplement and a research account in addition to the standard stipend and tuition award given to students in their respective PhD programs. Fellows are also entitled to participate in Fellowship events and activities including meetings with seminar speakers and lecturers and a fall reception for new Fellows.

    Selection of Fellows

    Gruber Science Fellow are notified of their selection for this honor in an award letter along with the letter offering admission to the Yale Graduate School. Both U.S. and non-U.S. citizens are eligible to be considered as Gruber Science Fellows.

    Wu Tsai Institute Graduate Fellowships

    Wu Tsai Institute Graduate Fellowships are open to all Yale PhD program applicants who are interested in interdisciplinary study of cognition or neuroscience-related techniques or approaches. Applicants should select the Wu Tsai Institute box in the Special Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowships section of the Graduate School application form. Entering students receive a stipend supplement and a research account in addition to the standard stipend and tuition award.

    More information is available at https://wti.yale.edu/initiatives/graduate.