GSAS Finances

A Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) study on last year's sources of graduate students' financial support will be completed early next month, Richard A. Kraus, GSAS director of admissions and financial aid, said yesterday.

Kraus said the results of the study should be similar to those of a study conducted last year, although both the number of graduate students and the amount of expenditures have increased since then.

Last year's study showed that the major sources of support were Harvard salaries and grants-in-aid and non-Harvard grants. Each of these sources contributed between $3 million and $4 million, together accounting for 66 per cent of the $16.5 million funding total.

Kraus said graduate student salaries come primarily from Harvard teaching fellowships, while non-Harvard grants are mostly government training grants in such areas as public health.

Other sources of funding included parental gifts and loans and student savings savings and assets, which each provided $800,000 or 5 per cent total funding, and spouse income, which provided $2.3 million or 14 per cent.

Last year there were about 2,300 graduate students and they spent an average of $7,000 per student.