Funding Packages

	A	B	C	E
1	Baylor University	PhD	Fall 2015	$18k-ish
2	Boston College	PhD	Fall 2017	$23k
3	Boston University	PhD	Fall 2015	$24k
4	Brandeis University	PhD	Fall 2013	$20.4K (+ health insurance & full tuition)
5	Brown University	PhD	Fall 2013	$28k for 5 years ($25k + summer funding)
6	Columbia University	PhD	Fall 2016	$30,770 + health insurance for 6 years. ($27,270 + summer funding)
7	Cornell University	PhD	Fall 2015	$24,658 for five years; $5,200 for four summers;
8	CUNY Graduate Center	PhD	Fall 2015	$25k
9	Duke University	PhD	Fall 2013	$15k
10	Duke University	PhD	Fall 2016	$21k
11	Emory University	PhD	Fall 2015	$22k
12	Fordham University	MA/PhD	Fall 2016	MA package (not guaranteed to all entering students): $22k. for two years through Graduate Assistantship or Writing Center work. Includes tuition and health care. Also: Standard PhD package straight from BA is for 6 years now, and is guaranteed to all entering students (you no longer have to have an MA to apply for PhD track). Package for entering PhDs who already have an MA is 5years at $23k guaranteed to all entering students.
13	Georgetown University	MA	Fall 2016	MA package as GWA: $10k each year with $5k as a fall stipend and the other $5k as hourly wage through 1-1 teaching load. Full tuition waiver as well as tuition waiver for one language course a semester. No health insurance.
14	Georgetown University	MA	Fall 2017	Full tuition waiver (40k a year), hourly stipend of $18/hr for 15hr a week, and a 5k summer non-service stipend. Free foreign language classes included as well. Package guaranteed for both years.
15	Georgia State University	PhD	Fall 2015	Funding is not guaranteed for anyone admitted to the program. Those who are given funding receive $13k a year for 5 years with a 2/2 teaching load. It is possible to receive an additional $2k a year for a "professionalism" option: 4 hours/week in the Writing Center, working as an RA, or teaching another class.
16	Harvard University	PhD	Fall 2015	Six-year fellowship package. $26,800 provided for each of the first two years and in the final dissertation year (normally the fifth or sixth year). A summer grant ($5,360) provided for each of the first four summers of the program. Teaching in 3rd and 4th years; 4 sections per year.
17	Harvard University	PhD	Fall 2016	Six-year fellowship package. $27,600 provided for each of the first two years and in the final dissertation year (normally the fifth or sixth year). A summer grant ($5,520) provided for each of the first four summers of the program. Teaching in 3rd and 4th years; 4 sections per year.
18	Indiana University	PhD	Fall 2015	Six years of funding with $18K fellowship in the first year. TA from year 2-6, 15.6K. Tuition remission. Health insurance. Teaching is 1:1 in years 2-4, and 2:1 in 5th year.
19	Johns Hopkins University	PhD	Fall 2014	$31K x 5 years (usual 6th). Full health.
20	Johns Hopkins University	PhD	Fall 2017
21	Kansas State University	Fordham University?	Fall 2014	$9,863/year + tuition waiver. Around $1,500/year in travel funding, which almost everyone recieves. An additional $5,000/year if you recieve graduate school and/or department scholarships.
22	Kent State University	MA	Fall 2013	yNot guaranteed, a Graduate Assistantship is rare (only 2 this year). Graduate Assistantship includes a full tuition wavier and 10,250 a year stipend. 70% of health care covered. Teaching load 1/3 first semester and 2/2 second semester. The teaching load is the same for both years ( 2 year program)
23	Lehigh University	PhD	Fall 2013	19.7k TA for 4 years, possibility of more after that. 1/1 teaching.
24	Louisiana State University	PhD	Fall 2015	$17k/4 years with MA and funding is equal for everyone. Has been $17k for several years. 16.5k w/o MA. Tuition waived, fees are not (~$1000/semester). options for summer funding are limited. Teaching: if you have an MA, it's 1:1 comp your first year (but there's 2 comp classes so you teach freshman comp in fall and soph comp in spring). it's always a 1:1 load, and mostly comp, but you're supposed to be guaranteed 2 gen-ed classes before graduation.
25	Loyola Marymount University	MA	Fall 2013	$21-22k/year Teaching Fellowship, renewable for a total of 2 years. I was told that departmental scholarships run $5k-$10k. I received a $10k. Total funding for Fall/Spring of Year 1 is $32k. Must pay insurance separately.
26	Marquette University	PhD	Fall 2013	$14,120 a year for up to four years with MA. 2/1 teaching load. Subsidized health insurance.
27	Miami University of Ohio	MA	Fall 2013	~13.6k with a tuition waiver (roughly $200 per month would go to fees). Nominated for a one time Academic Achievement Award of $2,500 (declined before knowing if I got it) which would bring the total up to ~16.1K (minus those monthly fees). Renewable for one additional year (teaching 1-1 the first year, and a 2-1 or 1-2 the second). No word on healthcare coverage.
28	New York University (NYU)	PhD	Fall 2013	[Averages out to around 31k per year for 5 years] 25k, 4k to move, 5k summer fellowship in 3rd year (also guarenteed 4 semesters of teaching that is paid in addition to stipend at 6k per class) ...additional funding also availible in the form of classes,research positions, etc.
29	North Dakota State University	PhD	Fall 2013	14k for 2/2 teaching load. 12k 1/2 and 2/1 teaching fellow positions available after GTA runs out.
30	Northeastern University	PhD	Fall 2013	16.5K guaranteed for 5 years. GTA with 1/1 teaching load plus 5 hours/week tutoring in WC. Plus Tuition Waiver, Health Insurance.
31	Northwestern	PhD	Fall 2015	2,455 per month for all 12 months of the year = 29,460/year. Guaranteed for 5 years. TA years 2-4, fellowship for years 1 and 5
32	Ohio State University	PhD	Fall 2013	Base package: 1/1 TAship for 14.8k (MA/PhD), 15k (pre-candidate PhD), and 16k (PhD candidate). Full tuition remission. 85% health insurance. 5-6 years guaranteed funding with BA, 4-5 with MA. Fellowship opportunities available. Personal package (entering with an MA): Two year fellowship: 23k first year, 25k dissertation year. Teaching Assistantship during intervening years: 15k, plus 3k excellence bonus from fellowship for up to 3 years. Same tuition/health benefits as above.
33	Ohio State University	PhD	Fall 2013	For base package see above entry. Personal package (entering with BA): First year fellowship (no teaching requirements): 20k first year (plus 3k excellence bonus). Teaching Assistanship during subsequent years: ~15.5K, plus 3k excellence bonus for up to 3 years (carries a 1-1 teaching load). Same tuition/health benefits as above entry.
34	Ohio State University	PhD	Fall 2015	Much remains the same as previous years, including tiered fellowships, health benefits, teaching load. Base stipend has increased slightly to ~16K.
35	Ohio State University	PhD	Fall 2017	Base package is now a little shy of 17k, still with 1/1 TAship each year. Several fellowship nominations are possible, which bump up the base stipend by between $8000 and $13000 for 1, 2, or even 3 years, and remove the teaching requirement for fellowship years. There is no longer an "excellence bonus" option, but 85% health care is still covered.
36	Princeton	PhD	Fall 2015	University fellowship at $30.5K for first year; funding for 5 years total, mix of university fellowship years (2) and & Assistant in Instruction years (3).
37	Rutgers	PhD	Fall 2015	6 years guaranteed: $23k fellowship year 1 plus $5000 the first summer. then TA at $26k, and a dissertation fellowship (for one of the remaining 5 years) at $23k, healthcare, tuition waiver.
38	Saint Louis University	MA/PhD	Fall 2016	18K TA for 2 years renewable for up to 5 years. Healthcare. Tuition waiver.
39	Stanford	PhD	Fall 2017	29.5K guaranteed for 5 years, plus 7.5k summer funding for 4 years. Sixth year funding available but not guranteed. Two years (I think) of assistanship work, with four quarters of teaching. Tuition + health insurance. Conference and research travel funding available.
40	SUNY- Albany	PhD	Fall 2013	15k TA (limited number of TA positions, some people accepted w/o funding)
41	SUNY- Binghamton	PHD	Fall 2016	17k TA stipend/year for 4 years, with 16,650 tuition scholarship (covers all of tuition except fees)a + health insurance/dental/vision for about $20/month; if you go into 5th year there are opportunities to adjunct, etc.
42	SUNY-Buffalo	PhD	Fall 2013	19.5k (6k in fellowships) w/ TA (w/o fellowship package is around 13.5k) + Health Insurance - Some students recieve 4k in fellowships for a total of 17.5k
43	SUNY-Buffalo	PhD	Fall 2016	$18,800 ($14,800 TAship and $4,000 fellowship). Health insurance + tuition waiver.
44	SUNY-Stony Brook	PhD	Fall 2017	20k TA renewable for 5 years + tuition waiver -- all students same funding
45	Temple	PhD	Fall 2013	$16,391 standard TAship for 2013/2014, tuition remission, health insurance. Four years guaranteed funding with very likely funding for years 5, 6, and beyond. First two years, students lead discussion groups or grade essays; year 3 is 1/1 composition; year 4 on is teaching in student's area of interest.
46	Texas A&M University	PhD	Fall 2013	$12k a year, with a $1,000 raise after both the first year review and exams. 2/1 teaching load. Subsidized health insurance. Alternate assistantship duties (digital humanities office, Shakespeare bibliography project) possible after first year.
47	Texas Christian University 5	PhD	Fall 2013	20k + tuition for 4 years (easily renewable after that given satisfactory progress). Additional funding available through competetive means. 1/1 teaching.
48	Tufts University	PhD	Fall 2017	22,800 first-year fellowship, no teaching. Gets raised each of next for years to over 25K. Entering BA gets 1 year TA, 3 years teaching 1-1 and 1/2 year diss fellowship. Entering with MA gets 3 years teaching and 1/2 year diss fellowship (1 year less coursework). health = 5 years. extra fellowships possible. competitive summer diss funding
49	Univeristy of California - Riverside	PhD	Fall 2015
50	University of Arkansas	MA/PhD	2016	$11,000 for teaching assistants at the M.A. level and $11,500 for teaching assistants at the Ph.D. level. Teaching assistants also receive a full tuition waiver and the option of a benefits package.
51	University of California - Berkeley	PhD		Variety of packages. 23k for five years, 23k for two years and 17k for three, 30k for five years, 28k/2 with 26k/3 (are all of these packages updated? or are some of these figures from past years? 23/17 seems low compared to the rest of this list? thanks!--looks like they're from past years. last year, minimum package was upped to 31, 25, 17 17 17--about 22 per year) Mellon-Chancellor's Fellowship 2015: 31,000 for five years.
52	University of California - Davis	PhD	Fall 2013	Base: $17k guaranteed six years thru teaching 1:1; health care, fees, and tuition remission. (Personal offer adds two fellowships--Provost's for $25k and dept. for $5k summer stipend-- to first year for a total of $30k first year.)
53	University of California - Irvine	PhD	Fall 2013	Fee remission for first 6 years + 30,600 stipend years 1, 4, and 5 (no teaching). 17,655 TA pay + 9k stipend years 2, 3, and 6. This is the UC Cota-Robles fellowship + a "top-off" incentive to compete with other offers.
54	University of California - Los Angeles	PhD	Fall 2015	Base (2015): 5 years guaranteed. 21k + 3k for two summers (unchanged since at least 2012), TA $18,538 to $21,735 depending on experience years 2-4, 1:1. departmental fellowships availiable, additional funding offers for the first year from the Milner Fund ranging from $2,000 to $5,000. A dissertation fellowship of 21k. With the Cota-Robles fellowship, $25,000 for 4 years and this adds an additional year of funding.
55	University of California - Santa Barbara	PhD	Fall 2013
56	University of Chicago	PhD	Fall 2015	$30,000/year for five years; must pay $1000 in fees per year; $3000 (not yearly) for "research expenses" (computer equipment, travel, language study); tuition waiver, healthcare.
57	University of Cincinnati	PhD	Fall 2017	$15,000/year for a 1/1 teaching load. Separate fellowship for tuition/fees. Partial insurance covered.
58	University of Colorado - Boulder	PhD	Fall 2013	~20,000 for 5 years, teaching years 2-5, additional support while on the job market
59	University of Connecticut	MA/PhD	Fall 2015	$23k with TAship for 5 years (1/1). Health and dental included.
60	University of Florida	MA	Fall 2013	2 years: $9,700/year, 2-1 teaching load. Health insurance and tuition waiver. Fall 2013 is the last year UF will offer its freestanding MA program. All MAs have been invited to continue on to the PhD, given successful academic progress. Can confirm other fellowship offers exist, which the department automatically considers applicants for (received 3-year fellowship at $4,000/year).
61	University of Florida	PhD	Fall 2013	4 years: $10,781/year, fellowship year 1, TA 1-1 after that. Health insurance. Some competitive fellowships available to apply for.
62	University of Georgia, Athens		Fall 2013	14K TAship, renewable up to 5 yrs. 2/1 teaching load. Partial health insurance. Students must pay $1K+ in fees each semester.
63	University of Illinois - Chicago	PhD	Fall 2012	Results Board: 16k, 5 years
64	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	PhD	Fall 2013	Personal package (entering with MA): 16k first year with 1/1 teaching load that includes 6.5k fellowship stipend, 20k after that with 2/2 teaching. Full tuition remission. 6-7 years guaranteed funding with an MA, 7-8 with a BA. Other fellowship opportunities available.
65	University of Kansas	MA	Fall 2013	$13,000 (minimum) TA with a 2/2 load for up to 3 years for MA and MFA students, and 5 years for PhD students. Tuition remission included as well as a portion of fees covered.
66	University of Kansas	PhD	Fall 2017	$15,000 TA with a 2/2 load. Tuition remission, fees covered, health insurance included.
67	University of Louisiana at Lafayette	PhD	Fall 2013	$12,000 per year as a living stipend (PhD GA) and also include tuition remission (as many courses as you'd like to take, no credit hour limit) and health insurance (limited to the student health services, not real insurace). PhD Fellowships $14,700 everything else same as GA (tuition remission and health insurance) Variety of types (and amounts) of first year funding: fellowships, research assistantships, grader positions, or teaching. 2/2 class load for GAs (different for Fellows) Funding thru teaching in other years. 4 years (with possible 5th year extension. Don't count on it, funding is tight). .
68	University of Maryland College Park	PhD	Fall 2013	5-year funding package: between 23K-24.5K for years 1, 2, 3, and 5; 20K for year 4; faculty and staff insurance; full tuition waiver. Same teaching as below.
69	University of Maryland College Park	MA	Fall 2015	Funding not guaranteed, but 1/2 TAships and 1/2 & full GAships available. 1/2 TAships consist of partial tuition remission and a yearly stipend of 9K. Some GAships provide full tuition remission, healthcare, and yearly stipend upwards of 20k.
70	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	PhD	Fall 2015	6-year package for all students: $22k, fellowship years 1 & 5, teaching 1-1 other years (though fellowships through the grad school are available to apply for in diss years), health insurance, tuition remission, $5k summer funding (except first summer, which is a $2k research assistantship). Grad students do pay minimal fees in non-fellowship years. Fees totaled just over $300 this year. Rackham Merit Fellowship: $33.5k first year, $22k years 2-6 (+$5k summer funding years 2-5), non-teaching fellowship years 1, 4, and 5. 1-1 teaching load years 2, 3, and 6.
71	University of Minnesota -Twin Cities	PhD	Fall 2013	6 year package (1st year fellowship 17k, years 2-6 TAship at 18k (updated from 14k, increased last year), tuition waiver, health insurance (including vision and dental) [summer funding opportunities... usually 3 years at 4k via research fellowships, or May semester teaching (after tax), 6k (after taxes) for teaching a 4 credit summer course]; fees are NOT covered by tuition waiver, and run between 650 and 750/semester until completion of required credits and then dropping to about $200 usually during the fourth year depending on when exams are completed.
72	University of Mississippi	PhD	Fall 2015	$11,500/year for 5 years (plus tuition waivers)
73	University of Nevada, Reno	PhD	Fall 2013	$15,500 a year for 5 years (increased this year; previously was $14,000/year), 2-1 teaching load (or 2-2 as a TA discussion leader). 95% tuition remission and 100% health insurance. Opportunities to teach in summer and winter for additional funding. Stipends are almost always available to travel and deliver papers at conferences.
74	University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	PhD	Fall 2016	Teaching fellowship for first year worth $16,000 plus tuition remission and health insurance + $2,000 for summer (total of $18,000 for first year)--to teach one undergrad writing course per semester. TF renewable every year after that. After four semesters of teaching undergrad writing, encouraged to teach two sections of lit. Dissertation fellowship available for advanced doctoral students so they don't have to teach while writing dissertation.
75	University of North Carolina at Greensboro	PhD	Fall 2015	$15k first year with in-state tuition waiver (1/1 plus 10 hours per week in writing center for one semester), $20k years 2-4 (2/1) with no tuition waiver, possible fifth year funding up to $14k for 2/2. Health insurance subsidy all years.
76	University of North Dakota	PhD	Fall 2013	$16,525 (website) for a 2/2 teaching load. Tuition scholarships appear to be offered separately.
77	University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee	MA	Fall 2015	11.5k TA, 2/2 teaching load, full tuition remission, 100% health insurance
78	University of Oregon	PhD	Fall 2013	with everything covered (tuition, insurance, etc) and the basic stipend of 11,500 first year that would jump up to 14,000 from the second year [guaranteed 5 years] (NOTE: not all admitted are offered 11.5k; some are offered 10k and then fellowships can be added to jump up to 11.5k)
79	University of Pennsylvania	PhD	Fall 2014	5 years $25,142, three summers of 4,150, tuition waiver, health care. Teaching in years 2,4. Enrollment fee: 50 Dollars
80	University of Phoenix	PhD	Fall 2013	Base package currently unknown, but likely to be uncompetitive, despite international standing of university. No teaching requirements. Little faculty interaction promised. No health insurance for the rest of your life.
81	University of Pittsburgh	PhD	Fall 2013	5 year package, funding guaranteed to all. Full tuition remission. First year fellowship ~21k; years 2-3 TA at 17,130; years 4-5 TF at 17,800. 1/1 teaching load. One guaranteed summer teaching (year 3). Guaranteed summer research stipend year 2 ($3k), plus new guaranteed summer funding year 4 --research or teaching-- . Excellent medical benefits years 2-5 (dental and vision for additional small monthly fee). $400 guaranteed conference funding per year from department, plus other competitive options. Approx. $30 in fees per semester. Competitive funding possible year 6.
82	University of Rochester	PhD	Fall 2015	Was offered 18k per year base package with no teaching the first year and then a 1/1 load thereafter. Funding guarenteed for 5 years.
83	University of South Florida	PhD	Fall 2017	Offered $15,586 stipend for a 2/2 teaching comp. Insurance included, and tuition, but would need to pay fees.
84	University of Southern California	PhD	Fall 2015	Standard incoming fellowship: $25,500/a - 3 non-teaching years, 2 teaching years. $1000 of that amount is payable in summers, $500 is for travel. Provost fellowships top off at $30k/a
85	University of Texas Austin	PhD	Fall 2013	For students entering with BA: 13k as a TA for a literature survey class Years 1 and 2; 16k as AI composition instructor, years 3-6. 1/1 Teaching load with an additional 7 hours/week in the Writing Center. Two summer fellowships of 2.5k. Opportunity to TA in the second summer for 2.5k and AI in the third summer for 5k. At least 1 semester of dissertation fellowship. University employee health insurance. 95% tuition and fees. Fees ~$1000/semester, but some may be refunded. 6 years of funding if entering with BA, with the potential for up to 7 years. For students entering with MA: 14.4k as TA or 16.3k as AI (placement as TA or AI is made on an individual basis). Two summer fellowships of 2.5k. Opportunity to AI second summer for 5k. Same teaching load, health, tuition, dissertation fellowship as above. 5-6 years of funding with MA.
92	University of Toronto	PhD	Fall 2013	17k (Canadian) for five years
94	University of Washington	PhD	Fall 2013	[this program does not fund all students] For those offered TA positions, the funding is for 5 years of $13k with health insurance, tuition waiver, but not fees.
95	University of Western Ontario	PhD	Fall 2013
96	University of Wisconsin - Madison	PhD	Fall 2013	19k fellowship first year (funding varies in first year--9k, 17k, etc., and not everyone gets funding in year 1), 16k 1:1 second year, other years dependent on teaching load (likely between 12-16K), 5 years guaranteed, health insurance and tuition remission
97	Vanderbilt University	PhD	Fall 2013	24k TAship (comp first two yrs, lit after), tuition waiver, 100% health insurance, all guaranteed for 5 yrs.
98	Washington University in St. Louis	PhD	Fall 2013	20.5k for 6 years, fellowship years 1,2, and 6; 1/1 teaching years 3-5; summer funding not guaranteed but likely, 1k to 2.5k; health insurance, tuition remission; funding likely to increase with cost of living.
99	Wayne State University	PhD	Fall 2013	16K for 4 years. Year 1 is fellowship, years 2-4 are TAships. Tuition waiver and health care. Good chance of summer TAships and 5th year fellowship funding. Teaching load is currently 2/1 but should be 1/1 shortly. Not all PhD students are funded in their first year.
100	West Virginia University	PhD	Fall 2013	17.4k GTA with 2/2 teaching load and insurance. Fellowships with reduced teaching load and 22k or 21k also possible.
101	Yale University	PhD	Fall 2015	29k x 6yrs guaranteed; teaching in years 3,4,6 / some in 2; healthcare, t. waiver
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