Funding increases for graduate students at UChicago.

[Cassin]

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/release...graduate.shtml

$50 million in aid for graduate students in Social Sciences, Humanities.

Beginning this fall, a typical base aid package for incoming graduate students in those areas will be five-year support that includes tuition, health insurance, a $19,000 stipend per year to cover living expenses, and two summers of research support at $3,000 per summer. By the time the program is fully operational in six years, the University will be providing students with an estimated $13 million each year in new support.

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Each year, the University enrolls about 250 graduate students in the Social Sciences and Humanities Divisions, an enrollment level that will be maintained under the new graduate assistance program. This represents one of the largest and most comprehensive graduate programs in these areas among leading private research universities.
As part of this program, $1.5 million will be allocated to improve the resources available to current doctoral students in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The new funds will make it possible provide University-paid health insurance to students who have matriculated since 2003 for the balance of the first five years in their programs.



That sounds amazing.

[Skipper]

Wow, I'm glad I applied. (Of course, I'll probably be rejected, but one can always hope!)

[jahizbarlas]

great link!

[Corneconomics]

I think they only offer help to about 1/3 accepted students now, but I think that it is already higher than that. I wonder if this will affect the economics department, or if it is more a change in the poorer departments, such as sociology?

[Cassin]

Originally Posted by Corneconomics

I think they only offer help to about 1/3 accepted students now, but I think that it is already higher than that. I wonder if this will affect the economics department, or if it is more a change in the poorer departments, such as sociology?

1/3 was my impression in the past, too. The article cites funding disparity varying "from student to student and from department to department." So it sounds like all social sciences would receive a baseline boost, including economics.