Fellowships for the Public Policy Ph.D. Program
Benjamin Franklin Lever Fellowships
Students from under-represented minority groups who have been regularly accepted into a graduate degree program, are enrolled full time, and whose tuition and registration fees are not paid on their behalf from another source will be eligible for Benjamin Franklin Lever Minority Graduate Student Fellowships.
University Doctoral Fellowships
Doctoral and Distinguished Fellowship
Doctoral and Distinguished Fellowship funding is designed to be used to recruit highly qualified students into the public policy program. If we have an applicant who is exceptional and applies as a result of the normal recruitment processes and during the time frames described in our normal application process, then the application will be reviewed in the typical manner. It is recognized, however, that recruiting specifically targeted to highly qualified students who are to receive a Doctoral or Distinguished position sometime may not follow the same process as normal admissions.
Eligible students for the Doctoral Fellowships should have a master's GPA of 3.65 or higher and a GRE verbal plus quantitative score of at least 1100. They should have a GRE writing score of 5.0 or higher. For the Distinguished Doctoral Fellow, the master's GPA should be 3.80 or higher and the V/Q score 1200. The GRE writing should be 5.5 or 6.0.
Doctoral fellowships are $5,000 in addition to the base assistantship of $10,000. Distinguished Doctoral Fellowships are $20,000 on the base $10,000.
It should be understood that an existing $10,000 assistantship must be available to "match" the fellowships above. Even though a student with the above qualifications may wish to enter the program, there may not be a base assistantship available to make this funding possible.