Financial Support and Tuition — Life Sciences (Integrated Graduate Program), Northwestern University

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Graduate Tuition and Fees

(Source: IPEDS, 2009)
Full-time students: Tuition ?$38,400
Full-time students: Fees ?$312
Part-time students: Cost per credit hour $4,518

Application fee

(Source: IPEDS, 2009) ?
Graduate school application fee $75

Living Expenses

On Campus

(Source: IPEDS, 2009)
On-campus room and board ?$11,703
Additional expenses ?$2,132

Off Campus

(Source: IPEDS, 2009)
Off-campus room and board ?$11,703
Additional expenses ?$2,716

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 ? 44%
Fellowship ? 34%
Traineeship ? 18%
Other 2%

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 51%
Health and Human Services (except NIH) 0%
National Science Foundation 0%
Department of Agriculture 0%
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 0%
Department of Energy 0%
Other Federal sources 3%

Non-Federal Support

Institutional support 36%
Foreign sources 0%
Other US sources 8%
Self support 2%
* Value is missing. The value shown is based on the average for other programs in the same field. Learn more.
Data are for all Biology / Integrated Biology / Integrated Biomedical Sciences degree recipients from Northwestern 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.