Financial Aid Financial aid consists of research assistantships, provided by the program, departments, or individual research grants, and teaching assistantships within the program or from individual departments. Some traineeships and work-study or loan opportunities are also available. The University has housing for married graduate students on a space-available basis. Single graduate students generally live in off-campus rooms or apartments in the vicinity of the University. The optimal time for apartment hunting is May 15 through August 1.
Students come from most states and many countries.
There are approximately 40 degree candidates in the Cell and Molecular Biology Program. The Cell and Molecular Biology Program has awarded more than twenty Ph.D. degrees during the past five years. Graduates have been extremely successful in obtaining highly competitive postdoctoral positions at leading academic, governmental, and industrial laboratories throughout the world. Several recent graduates have advanced beyond the postdoctoral level and are part of university faculty or at the senior investigator level at research laboratories at the NIH or in industry. Location Burlington, situated on the east shore of Lake Champlain, serves as the metropolitan and cultural hub of Vermont.