Students may apply all external scholarship aid toward the cost of attendance without any reduction in scholarship aid from Yale. Yale has been a leader among private institutions in controlling the rate of increases in its term bill charges. In each of the last three years, Yale limited the increase to 2.9 percent, which was the lowest increase among Ivy League schools in two decades. In addition to improvements in undergraduate financial aid, Yale has been steadily increasing financial aid for doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. All doctoral students receive financial aid packages that cover the full cost of tuition during the four years that tuition is charged and provide them with at least four years of stipend support that covers a substantial portion of their living expenses.
Many graduate students receive higher stipends than the minimum.
Comprehensive health care in an individual plan at no charge to the student, and family plans at half-cost to the student. A guarantee, in most programs, of five years of stipend or fellowship support with the expectation that students will teach part-time in no more than four semesters. A Summer Study Fellowship in one of the first two summers of study for students in the humanities and social sciences.