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PhD Stipends by University: 2026-27 Pay at Top Schools

For 2026-27, PhD stipends at the best-funded US private universities mostly fall between $44,000 and $58,000 a year. Stanford’s minimum research assistant rate works out to about $58,500 over 12 months, Yale’s minimum is $52,046, and Johns Hopkins guarantees at least $52,000. Other private universities often pay $34,000 to $44,000, and many public universities set […]

Planning

Ivy League Grad School Acceptance Rates (2026 Data)

Most Ivy League universities do not publish a single graduate acceptance rate, and the 3% to 6% figures you often see are undergraduate rates. Where Ivies do publish graduate numbers, they are low: Yale’s Graduate School offered admission to 5.7% of applicants in 2025, and Brown admitted 6.5% of its doctoral and MFA applicants in […]

Admissions

GRE-Optional Grad Programs for Fall 2027: How to Decide

For Fall 2027, many graduate programs no longer require the GRE, and some will not even look at your scores. Stanford’s Computer Science PhD and MIT’s EECS department, for example, do not use GRE scores in admissions. But the policy is set program by program, not school by school. Stanford’s Economics PhD still requires the […]