Many Pitt Public Health doctoral students and some master’s students receive some type of financial aid in the form of student loans, full or partial scholarships, fellowships, student hourly jobs, or assistantships. While funding is not guaranteed for every student, Pitt Public Health provided more than 5 million dollars in financial aid last year. Check out the school-level tuition and financial aid overview to review all options on financing your degree, then contact your department for more information on specific awards and assistantships.
Biostatistics and Health Data Science PhD Students
We provide full financial aid for PhD students, typically funding around 40 students per year. Students may be appointed as teaching assistants or graduate student researchers with the expectation of 20 hours a week devoted to the appointment. A TA supports faculty teaching a specific course(s) by providing office hours for students, creating homework keys, grading assignments and/or leading recitations. A GSR provides support to funded research projects maintained by either the Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science or collaborators in other departments. Both types of appointments include a stipend, tuition waiver and medical benefits.
K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship
We are actively recruiting doctoral students for the K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship, which supports outstanding and diverse graduate students and prepares them for academic and/or research careers. Each year, the School of Public Health selects distinguished doctoral applicants to participate in this prestigious program, which provides five years of financial support, plus academic guidance and cohort-based mentoring.
Interested applicants must apply to the doctoral program by the deadline; award recipients matriculate as full-time students in Fall 2025.
Biostatistics MS Students
The department awards financial aid to applicable MS students at the time of admission. Many MS students obtain jobs in the University or surrounding area performing data analysis and other statistical tasks. The department circulates job advertisements when available to all students.
