Dean's Fellowship (Yield)

Eligibility: PhD

The Dean's Fellowships, provided by the GSAS Dean's Office, invites departments to nominate eligible, incoming doctoral candidates. Fellowships are intended to aid in the recruitment of the most highly sought-after doctoral students applying to Tufts University. The goal of the awards is to augment up to 6 student aid packages by increasing the Fellows' total stipend by $10,000 (over the first two summers of the student's study). This aids in preventing financial considerations from standing in the way of choosing to pursue their degrees at Tufts.

Please note that the Provost's Fellowship opportunity is not available for the Fall 2025 academic year.

Submit a Nomination

Meal Plan Package

Eligibility: Masters, OTD, SMFA

All Masters, OTD, and SMFA students receiving 75% scholarship or more will be automatically credited the Graduate 25 Anytime Meals (or SMFA Meal Money) throughout their career at GSAS. Students will receive information about this in their Financial Offer Letter.

Relocation Assistance Program

Eligibility: Masters, OTD, SMFA

Available Awards: 50 awards @ $1,000 each for Fall 2024

To provide support for graduate students who are relocating in order to begin their graduate degree. GSAS is offering Relocation Assistance of $1,000 to incoming students who demonstrate financial need and have competitive offers from other universities. In order to be considered, students will be asked to upload their competitive offers through the Financial Aid Appeal Form* in Slate. These funds will be disbursed in the form of a check to the student after they have relocated and matriculated. 

Master's Recruitment & Yield Activity Funding 

Eligibility: Masters, OTD, SMFA Programs

A total of $6,500 is available across all master's and professional degree programs to help fund prospective student yield activities being organized at the department level. To request funds, complete the Master’s Yield Funding Request Form and provide a short proposal on how funds could help yield admitted students to your program.

PhD Recruitment & Yield Activity Funding

Eligibility: PhD Programs

The  Dean's Office will contribute a total of $1,750 to departmental operating budgets to support admitted PhD student campus visits and yield activities. Funding is available each year for participating programs. We ask that you use department funds initially and once spending is complete (up to $1750) email Felicia Przybyszewski with a brief description of what the funding was used for and she will initiate the expense transfer process.

Masters Enrollment Reinvestment Program (MERP)

Eligibility: Masters, OTD

To increase the number of quality applicants yielded into each of our GSAS masters programs, we instituted the Master’s Enrollment Reinvestment Program (MERP) in fall 2015. Each department’s master’s program is provided a MERP threshold for graduate student enrollment based on projected revenue. This money is to be used for graduate education. View MERP guidelines.

Application Fee waiver for Diversity Open Houses

As the next admissions season ramps up, GSAS would like to invite departments/programs to host (an) Open House event/s focused on diversifying your applicant pools (in-person, synchronous, or asynchronous). For any department/program who chooses to host such an event, GSAS will support your efforts by waiving the application fee for any prospective applicants who attend.  

Working in collaboration with the Office of Graduate Admissions, any department/program interested in hosting this type of event will receive a registration page to share with invited prospective applicants notifying them of this opportunity. If you are interested in this opportunity, please write to Felicia Przybyszewski and Allan Mathew.