The terms of all financial award packages offered to students require that they remain in good academic standing and follow guidelines regulating limits on outside employment. Ordinarily students are required to remain in residence until they have met the terms of their stipendiary requirement. Candidates who receive an outside grant for overseas study and relinquish their Seminary fellowship during one of their first five years of doctoral work are eligible to receive the fellowship during a sixth year. All fellowships are disbursed during the academic year.
This scholarship covers the annual cost of tuition, which in 2023-2024 is $20,250 (pending board confirmation), and is credited to the student’s account, one half each semester, on their behalf.
The Princeton Doctoral Fellowship is awarded for up to five years (10 semesters) of study in the PhD program. It provides an annual stipend of $26,265 and is offered to aid students in pursuing their doctoral education with the requirement that they serve as a teaching assistant or teaching apprentice for one master’s-level course per year for each year of funding support (with no additional remuneration).
One fellowship for doctoral work, preferably but not exclusively in Old Testament, may be awarded for up to five years of study to a senior in the Master of Divinity program in the Seminary, or a candidate in the Master of Theology program at the Seminary, who has displayed outstanding academic achievement and scholarly promise. It provides an annual stipend of $26,265 and is offered to aid students in pursuing their doctoral education with the requirement that they serve as a teaching assistant or teaching apprentice for one master’s-level course per year for each year of funding support (with no additional remuneration).
Peter Paris Fellowship
This fellowship is awarded annually, in addition to the Doctoral Fellowship or Green Fellowship, to one outstanding admitted student who is a descendant of slaves or from an underrepresented group, including but not limited to African, Latino/a, Asian-Pacific Islander, or First Nations descent. (Note: Current federal nondiscrimination guidelines and case law permit educational institutions to focus but not limit scholarships to particular racial/ethnic groups. Within the context of the Seminary’s complete financial aid program, the Peter Paris Fellowship will focus on African American students to the extent permitted by these guidelines.)
Presidential Merit Scholarship
This scholarship is awarded to students in each entering class whose applications, in the judgment of the PhD Studies Committee, are of excellent quality. The scholarship is awarded as a supplement to either the Princeton Doctoral Fellowship or The George S. Green Fellowship for Doctoral Study.
Trustees Merit Scholarship
This scholarship is awarded to students in each entering class whose applications, in the judgment of the PhD Studies Committee, are of superior quality. This represents the highest award offered by the Seminary to an entering doctoral student. The scholarship is awarded as a supplement to either the Princeton Doctoral Fellowship or The George S. Green Fellowship for Doctoral Study.
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