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HILS Home > Admission/Application > Finanical Support and Teaching
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) admits the most qualified students in the life sciences.
Financial support from Harvard and outside sources is assured for the duration of the PhD program, subject to satisfactory progress toward the PhD degree. Such support may include grants and fellowships from internal and external sources, traineeships, teaching fellowships, research assistantships, and other academic employment opportunities. This approach provides students with flexibility to establish their research interests and allows mobility to study across programs.
Ordinarily, in addition to the payment of tuition and required fees, a stipend will be provided in the first and second years of registration in GSAS. A teaching fellowship or research assistantship is guaranteed during the third and fourth years of registration in GSAS.
For each year that the student makes satisfactory progress toward the PhD degree, a new financial aid award, covering tuition and fees plus a standard monthly stipend, will be provided.
Graduate students in HILS have wide-ranging opportunities for student teaching. Particular teaching requirements vary among HILS programs, but they can include undergraduate teaching, teaching on the Medical School campus, and community-based teaching.