PhD Financial Support
The terms of all financial award packages offered to students require that they remain in good academic standing and follow guidelines regulating limits on outside employment.
Ordinarily students are required to remain in residence until they have met the terms of their stipendiary requirement. Candidates who receive an outside grant for overseas study and relinquish their Seminary fellowship during one of their first five years of doctoral work are eligible to receive the fellowship during a sixth year. All fellowships are disbursed during the academic year.
This scholarship covers the full annual cost of tuition at Princeton Theological Seminary.
The Princeton Doctoral Fellowship is awarded for up to five years of study in the PhD program. It provides an annual stipend and is offered to aid students in pursuing their doctoral education with the requirement that they serve as a teaching assistant or teaching apprentice for one master’s-level course per year for each year of funding support.
This fellowship for doctoral work, preferably but not exclusively in Old Testament, may be awarded for up to five years of study who has displayed outstanding academic achievement and scholarly promise.
This scholarship, named after Peter J. Paris, professor emeritus of Christian social ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary and a renowned scholar in African American religion, provides an annual award for five years of consecutive full-time study.
This scholarship is awarded to students in each entering class whose applications, in the judgment of the PhD Studies Committee, are of excellent quality.
This scholarship is awarded to students in each entering class whose applications, in the judgment of the PhD Studies Committee, are of superior quality. This represents the highest award offered by the Seminary to an entering doctoral student.