Graduate Financial Aid
Financial support for graduate work in philosophy is available in a number of forms.
Students entering the Ph.D. program in philosophy are eligible (along with entering students in other Ph.D. programs at Loyola) to be nominated for the Dean's Fellowship and for the Crown Fellowship. These fellowships provide a stipend and a full tuition award to their recipient, and are renewable for up to three years.
Graduate assistantships also are awarded competitively among Ph.D. students in philosophy, which provide stipends and full tuition awards. These assistantships require up to 16 hours per week in teaching or research assistance to assigned members of the graduate faculty. They are available to entering students and are renewable for up to two additional years.
After approximately two years of full-time course work, a Ph.D. student in philosophy is in a position to compete for one of the Teaching Fellowships awarded by the Graduate School. These provide a stipend and full tuition. The recipient teaches two philosophy courses each semester during the year of the award.
Students who have completed the Teaching Internship or who have otherwise acquired basic skills in teaching philosophy may have the opportunity to teach one or two sections of an introductory philosophy course in a given semester. Such opportunities typically arise as students complete their M.A. degree.
Finally, competition for Dissertation Fellowships is open to Ph.D. students who have completed their course of study and are writing their doctoral dissertations. These Fellowships provide a stipend designed to enable their recipients to concentrate full time on the completion of their dissertations.
