Financial Support and Tuition — Bioinformatics, Boston University

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Graduate Tuition and Fees

(Source: IPEDS, 2009)
Full-time students: Tuition ?$37,910
Full-time students: Fees ?$386
Part-time students: Cost per credit hour $1,184

Application fee

(Source: IPEDS, 2009) ?
Graduate school application fee $70

Living Expenses

On Campus

(Source: IPEDS, 2009)
On-campus room and board ?$11,848
Additional expenses ?$1,772

Off Campus

(Source: IPEDS, 2009)
Off-campus room and board ?$11,848
Additional expenses ?$1,772

Type of Financial Support

(Source: GSS, 2007)
How graduate students in the program (including master's, doctoral, and professional degree students) paid for their graduate educations
Teaching assistantship ? 2%
Research assistantship ? 51%
Fellowship ? 6%
Traineeship ? 14%
Other 28%

First Year Support

(Source: NRC, 2005) ?
Data for full-time doctoral students in the fall of 2005
First year students with full financial support NA

Sources of Financial Support

(Source: GSS, 2007)
How graduate students in the program (including master's, doctoral, and professional degree students) paid for their graduate educations

Federal Support

Department of Defense 0%
National Institutes of Health 49%
Health and Human Services (except NIH) 0%
National Science Foundation 9%
Department of Agriculture 0%
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 0%
Department of Energy 2%
Other Federal sources 0%

Non-Federal Support

Institutional support 18%
Foreign sources 2%
Other US sources 14%
Self support 6%
* Value is missing. The value shown is based on the average for other programs in the same field. Learn more.
Data are for all Bioinformatics degree recipients from Boston University and may include graduates from more than one program.

The graduate school rankings on PhDs.org have been made possible by grants from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
The National Postdoctoral Association and The Center for Science and the Media have served as the project's fiscal sponsors.