Schools paying for interview travel costs?

[glasscandie]

I was talking to a post-doc fellow at my Hopkins internship, and she told me that most of her schools paid for the costs of traveling to interviews. Is that mostly true? I hadn't heard that before.

[seunghwane]

I think this is always the case in biology. I don't know about other fields.

[studentfromLA]

It definitely depends upon the field. I think it's more common in the sciences. Also, I think it is dependent upon if an interview is required, and on how bad they want you :-)

[Minnesotan]

Most of the big programs in the humanities reimburse or partial reimburse for travel to interviews. Then again, a lot of programs in the humanities don't even do interviews.

[glasscandie]

Do brain/behavior programs generally do interviews?

[belevitt]

Yes all biomedical programs pay for your travel costs, hotel costs, transportation costs and meal costs. I can only think of a handful of a places that don't do interviews and those ones have "recruitment weekends" which are effectively the same thing without the stress of potentially getting cut after the interview.

[silverfrost]

I was invited to interview somewhere, but the school is not paying for ANY of the travel expenses.

*sigh* It's gonna be expensive...

[Astaroth]

Does anyone know whether any of the Biology/Biomed grad programs offer to pay for international students' airfare to attend interviews? I read somewhere that MIT might do that but couldn't find that anywhere again. In any case, if MIT invites me to an interview, the airfare will seem completely insignificant