Stipend amounts at PhD in Economics programs

[Okay]

Hello guys,

I am interested in knowing the amount of funding (yearly stipend) that each school in top 30 provides to admitted students. I was trying to get this information via looking at gradcafe posts, but the information there is not complete. Can you share your information?

Let me start first:

NYU: $34,000 is common
UCLA: $20,000-$27,000
UMich: $20,000-$23,000
UW-Madison: $22,000-$28,000
Cornell: $25,000-$32,000
Penn State: $28,000 is common
Texas-Austin: $16,000-$18,000
UNC: $18,000-$21,000

[tm_member]

Hello guys,

I am interested in knowing the amount of funding (yearly stipend) that each school in top 30 provides to admitted students. I was trying to get this information via looking at gradcafe posts, but the information there is not complete. Can you share your information?

Let me start first:

NYU: $34,000 is common
UCLA: $20,000-$27,000
UMich: $20,000-$23,000
UW-Madison: $22,000-$28,000
Cornell: $25,000-$32,000
Penn State: $28,000 is common
Texas-Austin: $16,000-$18,000
UNC: $18,000-$21,000

They all pay just enough to live humbly in their location with the top 10 schools (plus a few select programs such as Penn State) paying about 50-70% more. Although they tend to be in super expensive places (NY, Boston, LA, and so on). The amount of money you will get only matters on the margin.

[tutonic]

Chicago offered 42k to almost all incoming students last cycle.

[zach98]

Yale offers more

[chateauheart]

They all pay just enough to live humbly in their location with the top 10 schools (plus a few select programs such as Penn State) paying about 50-70% more. Although they tend to be in super expensive places (NY, Boston, LA, and so on). The amount of money you will get only matters on the margin.

Right now Yale and Chicago pay *significantly* more than other top 20 econ programs once you adjust for cost of living. Maybe close to a 70-100% bonus right now.

[tutonic]

And yet Berkeley rarely fund their first years. Noticeable difference between a public and private school, I suppose.

[startz]

The difference between private and public is noticeable.

But can I ask how sure you are about Berkeley? Their website says "Over 50% of our new admits receive some form of university or department financial support."

[tutonic]

Just based on the stuff I've read on last year's thread here, as well as Gradcafe posts and EJMR. Admittedly, they aren't exactly trustworthy in the strictest sense of the word, but what from what I recall, there was a full round of offers made in late-March that were mostly unfunded for first year. If I recall, there was a guy that accepted an unfunded first-year Berkeley offer last year from here. Maybe we can get him to chime in.