PhD Funding List

[newenglandshawn]

This may be a little challenging, but I'm interested in seeing a full list, in one place, of all the PhD programs that give students full funding (tuition + stipend) here in North America.

 

It would be very helpful!

[Seeking]

Most of them do.

 

I think it would be better to make a list of the few that don't because that list would be shorter and would also caution future applicants.

[newenglandshawn]

Actually, the majority don't. This is why - among other reasons - there are many, many programs that are not considered to be Top Tier programs.

[AbrasaxEos]

I think you may mean religion programs, not every PhD program in North America - this may be where the above poster is coming from.  Why is it that you need a list like this?  If you are really interested, you can go here:

 

http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/religion/rank/basic

 

and see a list of about 171 places that have graduate studies in religion.  The first 40 or so programs are probably the major ones in the field, though you may want to look over the others, and a few more recent ones are missing entirely (UT Austin, DU/Iliff, Northwestern). Then, just go the websites and look at their financial aid/support section. Ignore the rankings there, they are outdated and trying to rank graduate programs is an exercise in futility anyhow.  Most places that have full funding will at least tell you that they do, though few will have any actual amounts. Then you can post the results of your research for others to benefit from.

Edited October 27, 2013 by AbrasaxEos

[newenglandshawn]

That's precisely what I was trying to avoid - go through all the effort of tracking down the information from each school myself (especially since some of the schools that do provide funding, don't always make this abundantly clear on their website). 

 

I figured there was enough people on here who knew, from memory, a lot of the schools that did, so that we could collaborate and make a pretty sizeable list - which would seem to be very beneficial for those of us who are trying to figure out a way to pursue a PhD without spending another dime. 

[marXian]

Unfortunately, like AbrasaxEos has mentioned, there are a lot of programs. Even with the combined knowledge of people who post regularly here, I don't think we could provide you a comprehensive list. And even if people did begin listing schools that, to their knowledge, offered full guaranteed funding, you'd probably still want to double check. Also, some schools offer full funding to some but not all of their students--or at least that's been the situation in the past (Marquette and UCSB for example.)

 

I don't know that anyone else will want to throw some schools up here, but here are some that I am fairly certain provide full funding:

 

Northwestern

UVA

Duke

Yale

Harvard

Duquesne

Syracuse

Iowa (?)

Indiana (?)

Pittsburgh (?)

 

That's all I got off the top of my head, but there are obviously a lot more.

[sacklunch]

FWIW a few off the top of my head:

 

BC - Theo

ND 

UPenn - Religious Studies/NELC

UNC-CH

Michigan (?)

[Lux Lex Pax]

Princeton University

Princeton Seminary

Emory

[Kuriakos]

UChicago

Baylor

UT

[Lux Lex Pax]

UChicago

Baylor

UT

From what I've heard, UChicago doesn't fund everyone equally - some might get full tuition plus a stipend which varies by student, some might get no stipend at all.

[MsBOOM]

Georgetown

Yale

[cadences]

McMaster University (if you're looking to Canada).

[sacklunch]

Toronto auch (Religion and NELC)

[MBIGrad]

UCalgary; U British Columbia; NOT McGill; Devry University (in some cases); University of Phoenix (online adult ed programs are highly funded); UNC-Honolulu; UC-Littlerock; NYU-Toledo....

 

(The first three were serious; in fact, UBC and Calgary fund the MA students upwards of $15k in most instances)

[theoedu]

BU's practical theology Ph.D now does provide full funding, with 20,000 stipend for five years.

[AbrasaxEos]

As does BU's DRS, at least for Ancient Christianity and a few other subfields.  I am not certain about stipends for every person, but at minimum they do fund tuition and fees for all fields now.  There are special dean's fellowships, of which Ancient Christianity is a variety (it is actually a bit better), that give a pretty good stipend, health insurance, etc.

[newenglandshawn]

So does BU's STH provide full funding - tuition and stipend of $20k - for its ThD (which will probably be changing to a PhD).