The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Harvard Griffin GSAS) partners with schools across Harvard University to offer PhD programs in the natural sciences, engineering and applied sciences, and medical sciences. Each program offers students a funding package that meets their needs through a combination of tuition grants, stipends, traineeships, teaching fellowships, and research assistantships. Your financial aid officer collaborates with your program administrators to administer your funding throughout your time at Harvard Griffin GSAS. If you have questions about your funding, we recommend that you email both your financial aid officer and your department administrator.
Upon admission, students receive a Notice of Financial Support that outlines funding for the duration of their program. Typically, students receive support for tuition, the health fee and health insurance, subsidies to offset the cost of transportation and dental insurance, and living expenses. Amounts vary.
Programs based at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with five years of funding:
- Astronomy
- Chemical Physics
- Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Human Evolutionary Biology
- Mathematics
- Statistics.
Programs based at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with six years of funding:
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
- Physics.
Programs based collaboratively at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School with six years of funding:
- Biophysics
- Chemical Biology
- Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology.
Programs based at Harvard Medical School with six years of funding:
- Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- Biomedical Informatics
- Immunology
- Neuroscience
- Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology
- Virology.
Programs based at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with five years of funding:
- Biostatistics
- Population Health Sciences.
Programs based at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with six years of funding:
- Biological Sciences in Public Health.
Programs based collaboratively at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with five years of funding:
- Quantum Science and Engineering.
Programs based at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with five years of funding:
- Applied Mathematics
- Applied Physics
- Computational Science & Engineering
- Computer Science
- Data Science
- Engineering Sciences.