Graduate School Financial Aid
Driving Discovery
Students at Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) are engines of discovery. With critical support from fellowships, they push the boundaries of traditional scholarship into exciting new areas and share their findings to benefit the wider world. On campus they are the heart of Yale’s laboratories and undergraduate teaching, and they go on to become leaders, researchers, educators, and innovators in every sector.
Zlatko Minev ’18 PhD
“My goal is to solve problems that seem unsolvable. To do this, I aim to understand things at their deepest level. My time at Yale helped me develop this approach and showed me that it works. This faith, along with the technical knowledge and leadership skills I gained at Yale, has been unmatched in its value inside and beyond the laboratory.”
GSAS Funding Gap
Each year, the endowment payout covers just a portion of Yale’s spending on graduate fellowships. In 2023 the total spending for doctoral education was $212.6 million. Funding from the endowment supplied $129.6 million. The balance of $83 million is drawn from university funding and a patchwork of training grants, research grants, and other temporary resources.
Endowment Funding
Funding Gap
Attracting the Best
The world needs the work of our graduate students, who address the most pressing questions in every discipline. They also teach, tutor, and mentor undergraduate students—a role that positions them to influence future scholars and researchers, even as they make their own discoveries.
Fellowships help provide doctoral students with full tuition, a stipend for housing and meals, and healthcare coverage—an average cost of $85,000 per year for each of nearly 3,000 students. This essential support helps bring the world’s brightest minds to Yale.
$85K
Average award per student each year
How You Can Help
With your gift, you can be they key that opens doors for students. Annual, capital, and planned gifts count toward our $1.2 billion financial aid goal, and contributions count toward reunion class gifts and the For Humanity campaign.
Annual Gifts
Endowed Gifts
Graduate Student Stories
October 6, 2022
For Access: Kaelyn Apple ’26 PhD
With her YouTube channel, Kaelyn Apple ’26 PhD is paving the way for nontraditional students in academia.
January 20, 2023
Cultivating a Love for Science: Anaa Andriyash ’26 PhD
For Anaa Andriyash ’26 PhD, Yale is fertile ground for pioneering lab research in molecular biology
January 14, 2022
Innovating for a Strong and Flexible Future: Ethen Lund ’25 PhD
Ethen Lund studies materials science in Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. Conducting research that will mold the technology of tomorrow, Ethen has flourished as a member of the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale.