The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Harvard Griffin GSAS) offers incoming PhD students a comprehensive package of financial support including tuition, health insurance fees, and basic living expenses. This support consists of a combination of tuition grants, stipends, traineeships, teaching fellowships, research assistantships, and other academic appointments.
Because support varies by program, the following pages outline funding policies by academic division:
- Humanities and Social Sciences Support at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)
- Humanities and Social Sciences Support Offered in Partnership with Other Harvard Schools
- Natural Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Medical Sciences Support at the FAS and Offered in Partnership with Other Harvard Schools.
Initial Notification of Financial Support
An initial Notice of Financial Support is provided at the time of admission to a Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD program. The Notice of Financial Support will outline the specific funding available to you from the program to which you have been admitted. In addition, each student is assigned a financial aid officer who will administer this funding and be available to assist you with any financial concerns you might have throughout your time working towards your degree.
Your eligibility for continued financial assistance as outlined in your initial Notice of Financial Support assumes the following:
- You must maintain continued full-time enrollment. Students not enrolled (including during a leave of absence or a period of studying at another institution) are not eligible for Harvard Griffin GSAS financial aid programs.
- You must always maintain satisfactory academic progress as certified by your department and academic advisor on a term-by-term basis. Students who are not making satisfactory academic progress are not eligible for Harvard Griffin GSAS financial aid programs.
Annual Renewal/Acceptance of Financial Support
Annually, continuing students supported by Harvard Griffin GSAS-administered funding sources are required to renew or activate their funding for the upcoming year through the Student Aid Portal, an online financial aid management system (students in the humanities and social sciences programs at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in partner schools), or in coordination with their academic department (students in natural sciences, engineering and applied sciences, and medical sciences).
Natural Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Medical Sciences Programs
- Astronomy
- Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- Biological Sciences in Public Health
- Biomedical Informatics
- Biophysics
- Biostatistics
- Chemical Biology
- Chemical Physics
- Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Immunology
- Mathematics
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Neuroscience
- Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
- Physics
- Population Health Sciences
- Quantum Science and Engineering
- Speech & Hearing Bioscience & Technology
- Statistics
- Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology
- Virology.
Humanities and Social Sciences Programs at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Humanities
- Classics
- Celtic Literatures and Languages
- Comparative Literature
- East Asian Languages and Civilizations
- English
- Film and Visual Studies
- Germanic Languages and Literatures
- History of Art and Architecture
- Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
- Linguistics
- Music
- Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
- Philosophy
- Religion
- Romance Languages and Literatures
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- South Asian Studies.
Social Sciences
- African and African American Studies
- American Studies
- Anthropology
- Economics
- Government
- History
- History of Science
- Human Evolutionary Biology
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Psychology
- Social Policy
- Sociology.
Humanities and Social Sciences Programs Offered in Partnership with Other Harvard Schools
Interfaculty Programs in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning
- Business Administration
- Business Economics
- Education
- Health Policy
- Organizational Behavior
- Political Economy and Government
- Public Policy.