Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Graduate Program
Financial Support
The stipend level for Chemistry and Chemical Biology graduate students at the University of California San Francisco is $26,000 for the 2006-07 academic year. The stipend amount is set by the PIBS Executive Committee each year. The program guarantees support for all of its students while they are making satisfactory progress toward their degrees. The CCB graduate program meets the financial needs (stipend, fees and tuition) of its graduate students through the NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) training grant traineeships, university fellowships, PIBS Boyer Fund traineeships, teaching fellowships, research assistantships, and external fellowships.
All continuing and first-year students are encouraged to apply for non-university fellowships for which individuals might qualify. United States citizens who wish to enter the program should apply for non-University financial support at the appropriate time so that support can be activated at the time of enrollment. Information about fellowships is available at CCB Fellowship Information. Foreign students should apply for support from their home governments, employers or corporate sponsors, or the appropriate national or international foundations. In addition, University fellowships and graduate scholarships are available through the University of California. Fellowships with lower stipends than the PIBS support of $26,000 will be supplemented to this level. To facilitate the program's efforts to guarantee full support for its students, all eligible students are expected to become residents of the State of California as soon as they are eligible.
If you apply for a fellowship and are not selected, then you are free to reapply in your first year at grad school, with greater experience and perhaps some useful feedback from the agency that turned you down in your senior year. Lack of fellowship support is not a factor in grad school selection: our choices are made long before such information is publicly announced. When an applicant is right for a program, he or she is admitted with enthusiasm regardless of external support.