Tuition and Fees

• In-state students: $7,664 per semester (estimated)
• Out-of-state students: $16,413 per semester (estimated)

The above rates are estimated for students taking nine or more credits per semester in the 2024-25 academic year. Students who have completed course requirements are fully enrolled while taking three dissertation credits and therefore pay lower tuition and fees ($3,752 N.C. resident/$6,131 out-of-state resident).

More information about tuition and fees is available from the Office of the University Cashier.

Funding

We strive to make our program as affordable as possible for all of our students through several generous fellowship packages, each offering four years of full funding with no additional application required.

School-based Full Funding

Our funding packages support students’ study over four academic years. They provide students flexibility and breadth of experience by combining three years of school-based fellowship or scholarship funding with one year fulfilling a teaching assistantship, working on a faculty grant or benefitting from other university funding. While on fellowship funding, each student works as a graduate assistant 15 hours per week for each semester while receiving funding, serving as a research assistant for four semesters and as an instructor of record for two semesters. This balance allows students to develop both their research record and the teaching experience necessary to be competitive on the job market.

Applicants for admission are considered for the below full funding types. Not all fellowships and scholarships are available every year.

Roy H. Park Fellowships

Funded by the Triad Foundation of Ithaca, New York, the school annually awards Park Fellowships to about five new doctoral students who are U.S. citizens.

Orville Gray and Lucille M. Cobbs Memorial Scholarship

The Cobbs Scholarship supports an outstanding international student in the Ph.D. program. The scholarship does not require a work assignment.

William G. Arey, Jr. Fellowship

The Arey Fellowship supports an outstanding international student in the Ph.D. program.

Other Fellowships/Assistantships

In many years, funding for at least one student is available from a faculty grant. Such grants seek students with research interests aligned with those of the funded project. We will contact candidates for grant-funded positions at the time of application review or interviews.

Other School-Based Funding

The school also administers a number of other competitive awards each spring to enrolled doctoral students, including the Margaret Blanchard Dissertation Support Awards, Eli A. and Minnie S. Rubinstein Research Awards, William Francis Clingman Jr. Ethics Awards and Tom Wicker Award.

Students may also compete for top-paper awards at the annual Spring Research Colloquium and apply for funding from the ABIDE committee for relevant projects and programming.

Additional Funding from The Graduate School

Early each January, we nominate top applicants, regardless of their citizenship, for highly competitive fellowships and assistantships that are available from The Graduate School. Eligible applicants are automatically considered for these nominations based on their applications for program admission. There is no additional application.

The Graduate School also accepts applications from returning students to fund an additional year of dissertation work, summer research, confernce travel or unexpected academic expenses.

Financial Aid Office

Students can apply for federal loans through the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid.