Financial Aid

Biosciences Program students receive: Guaranteed stipend ($25,500 in 2012-13) Fully paid tuition and fees Health/Dental Benefits Continued support beyond the first year is guaranteed, provided that progress toward completion of the degree requirements is satisfactory. Sources of support include departmental funds, training grants, research grants, and individual fellowships. Cost of Living Calculator Fellowships & Enhanced Stipends Fellowship Resources

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Fellowships, Enhanced Stipends, & Institutional Awards

The Biosciences Program does not require that students have individual fellowships. However, we strongly encourage students with highly competitive academic credentials and research experience to apply to such sources.

Enhanced Stipend:

Award recipients who are successful in obtaining competitive external funding may be eligible for the following.

Supplement for External Fellowship Program - Carver College of Medicine

All graduate students who obtain individual, competitive extramural fellowships of $10,000 or more shall be eligible to receive a supplement to their stipend of $2000 per year.  This supplement will be provided for the lifetime of the fellowship award.  All graduate students in graduate programs in the Biosciences Program, the Basic Science Departments in the CCOM, the MSTP, the Graduate Program in Free Radical Biology, the four Interdepartmental Graduate Programs (Genetics, Immunology, Neuroscience, and Molecular & Cellular Biology), are eligible for this supplement.

The CCOM will fund the supplement for those students whose mentor has a primary appointment in the CCOM.

To apply for this supplement, graduate students with mentors in the CCOM should send a cover letter, a letter of support from their mentor and a copy of the fellowship award letter to Angie Robertson, Research Administrator in the CCOM, 200 CMAB, 353-3619. 

Institutional Awards:

Presidential Graduate Fellowships - Must be nominated by the University of Iowa department/program to which you are applying. The selection of Fellows is done by a Graduate College committee on a rolling basis beginning in January and generally ending in early March.

Dean's Graduate Fellowships - Must be nominated by the University of Iowa department/program to which you are applying and must be from groups underrepresented in their academic field of study in the Graduate College.

Graduate Student Senate Supplemental Travel Award for Research - Reimbursement for travel administered by Graduate Student Senate and the Graduate College.