Funding
All qualified applicants to the School of Philosophy's M.A.-Ph.D. and Ph.D. programs will be considered for funding (tuition scholarships and stipend support). The School does not normally fund students who seek only the M.A. or Ph.L. degrees. Financial support for graduate study is listed elsewhere, including specific funding for students in the School of Philosophy. The following special endowments and funds also exist to assist doctoral students in the School.
The Aristotle Fund
This fund makes awards to students in the School of Philosophy with approved doctoral dissertation proposals on the philosophy of Aristotle and on Aristotelian philosophy more generally.
The Dr. Robert R. Banville Doctoral Fellowship Fund
This fund offers substantial stipends for graduate students with approved dissertation topics whose studies would lead to a philosophical understanding of the conditions for world peace and international cooperation in economic, social and cultural affairs. Dr. Robert R. Banville Scholars must also show leadership potential in advancing the cause of peace, understanding and cooperation between nations and peoples.
The Jude P. Dougherty Fellowship Fund
This fund provides scholarships and stipends for graduate students in the School of Philosophy for the first three years of full-time study.
The Monsignor Joseph B. McAllister Fund
This fund provides scholarships for lay students in the School of Philosophy in the field of scholastic Thomistic philosophy.
The Tom and Judy Moore Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Fund
This fund offers scholarships and stipends to outstanding graduate students in full-time studies for the doctorate through the generosity of the Tom and Judy Moore Foundation.
The Michael Novak and Karen Laub-Novak Fellowship Fund
This fund provides fellowships to full-time graduate students in the School of Philosophy who show interest and aptitude for philosophy and public policy and have interests in philosophy and economics; philosophy of social justice; philosophy of sports; the relation of faith and reason in American and international societies; religion and art; philosophy of democracy and human rights; philosophy of capitalism; and principles of public policy regarding family, welfare, and liberation from poverty.
The Father Kurt J. Pritzl Fund
This fund provides scholarships and stipends for graduate students in the School of Philosophy for the first three years of full-time study.
The Ryan Doctoral Fellowship Fund
This fund provides scholarships and stipends for graduate students in the School of Philosophy for the first three years of full-time study.
The John A. Weisz Scholar Fund
This fund provides stipends to graduate students in the School of Philosophy who exemplify in their philosophical studies the commitment to excellence and to the service of others that marked the life of the late John Weisz, in whose memory the fund was established.
The Norman V. White Scholarship Fund
This fund provides stipends to graduate students in the School of Philosophy committed to the classical and Catholic intellectual tradition advanced in the school. It was established by the Rock Creek Council Number 2797 of the Knights of Columbus.