Assistantships and Financial Aid

Assistantships

LeBow provides its PhD students with five years of tuition and stipend support conditional on satisfactory progress throughout the program. PhD students are also provided with substantial support for traveling to academic conferences.

LeBow considers all admitted students for research and teaching assistant positions which include:

• Full tuition waiver
• 12-month stipend
• Conference travel support
• Dissertation Proposal Defense increase (up to $2,000 per year for candidates who successfully pass their dissertation proposal defense)

Fellowships

In addition to research and teaching assistant positions, faculty admissions committees may nominate top accepted students for a variety of prestigious college- and university-level fellowships. The fellowships increase the annual stipend.

College Level

• Dean’s Fellowship ($5,000)
• Dragon Fellowship ($2,500)
• Departmental Fellowship ($500-$2,000)

University Level

• Gold Graduate College Fellowship ($2,500)
• Blue Graduate College Fellowship ($1,000)

Learn more about doctoral fellowships

Awards

Current PhD students may apply for a number of other awards including:

College Level

• John C. Clark Research Award for Best Paper ($2,000)
• John C. Clark and Margaret T. Clark, PhD Teaching Awards ($1,000)

University Level

• Drexel Common Good Award
• Outstanding Dissertation Award
• Outstanding Mentorships Award
• Research Excellence Award
• Teaching Assistant Excellence Award
• Teck-Kah Lim Award
• Teck-Kah Lim Graduate Student Travel Subsidy Award
• Global Engagement Awards

Pictured above: Di Tong (Management), Xiumei Li (Management), and Eric Lohwasser (Accounting) – 2018 winners of the John C. Clark Research Excellence Awards and the John C. Clark and Margaret T. Clark Teaching Excellence Award, with benefactor Dr. Margaret T. Clark.