<p>Which school and in which program offers the highest stipend for PhD students?</p>
<p>For which discipline? I believe that the natural sciences offer higher stipends than the social sciences or the humanities.</p>
<p>Any discipline.</p>
<p>Stanford</a> Graduate Fellowships: The Program</p>
<p>Thats a full 30-32k stipend fellowship with no RA or TA. Probably the best offer anywhere.</p>
<p>But also probably one of the higher cost of living areas, right?</p>
<p>Not too bad as theres on campus housing.</p>
<p>Is the Stanford fellowship an extremely competitive award that only few students get?</p>
<p>Their campus housing rates are pretty high, though: 2008-09</a> Residence Chart</p>
<p>Best I got when I was doing grad schools was Cornell's offer of $30k with health insurance included and no RA/TA. That's also living in Ithaca, where cost of living is considerably lower than Palo Alto.</p>
<p>A bit out-dated but here is a list for science stipends:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wendychao.com/science/stipends/%5B/url%5D">http://www.wendychao.com/science/stipends/</a></p>
<p>The stipend for Weill Cornell last year is $30,754. I'm not sure if it's the same this year. Gerstner Sloan-Kettering and Rockefeller also has high stipends , obviously due to location.</p>
<p>Many schools give monetary awards to students who win outside scholarships. For example, Rockefeller pays an extra $5000 (total of $35,000/yr.) to students who win competitive outside fellowships like the NSF or NDSEG. Many schools offer signing bonuses or "recruitment fellowships" like Stanford's as well.</p>
<p>My fellowship at USC is $30,000/yr, it last 4 years, and the first two years are no TA/RA. </p>
<p>I believe most schools base the amount on the cost of living. Also, I would venture to guess that private schools will generally give more.</p>
<p>What is the relevance of this question?</p>
<p>I dunno, UCSB and Caltech offered me the same amount of money, which was more than CMU pays their grad students, though all of it was less than Cornell.</p>
<p>I was told Cornell's is so high to make up for the fact that you're living in Ithaca by various grad students when I visited there.</p>
<p>For the ‘08/’09 year, Weill Cornell, Rockefeller and Sloan Kettering will be furnishing students with a $31,700 stipend. Columbia, on the other hand, gets a "measly" $29,328. </p>
<p>This is for biolgy / biomedical sciences.</p>
<p>I have a feeling that private schools in general offers better support than public schools.</p>
<p>^^^^</p>
<p>Your feeling is wrong.</p>
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Really? Berkeley (the only public school I applied to) was my lowest offer: solidly eight thousand dollars per year under the top two. I'm a citizen so I have no direct experience with it, but I heard that private schools admit more international students and pay them better than public schools. Is there data on this?</p>
<p>It might have just been Berkeley. I have friends that got into MIT and were only offered around $18k a year. That's well below any of the publics anyone I know's gotten into.</p>
<p>My friend including scholarships and stipend got close to 60K per year. But just stipend, I think 30K is about the high.</p>
<p>Wow jmilton, which field is your friend in?</p>
<p>actually for most natural-science programs, the total package is close to 60K per student. this includes tuition and insurance and all sorts of other goodies, but i think that most people on this thread consider 'stipend' to be the money that actually lands in your pocket.</p>