Just a word of encouragement. My husband is in his fourth year at UNC epi. Fully funded every year including 100% tuition, insurance, stipend. Sometimes doubled up training grant and ta. He'd been offered a training grant at uw and contacted unc to see if they would do the same before we decided which school. They dropped everything to move funding assignments around and offer him a better fitting grant. Even the out of state tuition was covered first year while we got residency. And he's already funded for fifth year with graduation may 2015. We've got kids, so still took a little loan to supplement the stipend, but a single student lives on the training grant stipend very comfortably here. Good luck, all. We're on the other end now trying to find hard-funded jobs...a whole other story.