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Many students choose to obtain a second graduate degree while at Syracuse. Currently two students are completing Master's in Public Administration in conjunction with their Ph.D.s in Applied/Development Anthropology. Twenty percent of the coursework for a Ph.D. in Anthropology can be applied towards the credit requirements of a second degree.
Tuition:
In 20232024-2425, fees for graduate students are set at $1,872 945 per credit hour. The amount of time it takes to complete a degree is on average, 1 1/2 years for a an MA (which requires 30 credit hours), and six years for the Ph.D. (72 credit hours). Health fees are $391 per semester. The Student Activity Fee is $100 per semester.
Financial Assistance:
The Claudia DeLys De Lys Scholarship in Cultural Anthropology is an endowed fund that provides support for field research leading to the Ph.D. degree, dissertation writing and pre-dissertation field work. Two or three awards are made annually.
The university offers 9-month teaching assistantships; for the 20232024-24 25 academic year, they are valued at $11$14,716 000 per semester plus tuition; there are also occasionally full-tuition scholarships available for qualified MA and Ph.D. students. Most students currently enrolled in the graduate program in the Department of Anthropology have received full or partial funding. The maximum duration of teaching assistantships is two years for MA students and four years for Ph.D. students. Eligibility for retaining assistantships is found under criteria for satisfactory progress in the Department's Guide to Graduate Studies. Students with teaching assistantships are expected to work 20 hours per week during the academic year. Duties usually involve teaching discussion sections and marking essays, assignments, and examinations in lower division undergraduate courses.
Outstanding students are eligible for University Fellowships and the Maxwell Dean's Summer Assistantship. The University Fellowship in 20232024-24 25 carries a stipend of $26$28,050000, plus tuition. In 2021, the Maxwell Dean’s Summer Assistantship carried a cash award of $4,666. U.S. citizens interested in studying South Asia are eligible for National Resource Fellowships through the SU South Asia Center. In 2021-22, South Asia fellowships are expected to provide provided a stipend of approximately $15,000, plus tuition for 24 credit hours. Fellowships to study language in South Asia during the summers are also available through the South Asia Center.
Advanced students, especially those who have completed their doctoral fieldwork, are eligible for other teaching opportunities. Many teach their own courses at University College – for example, ANT 111 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, ANT 121 Peoples and Cultures of the World, ANT 373 Magic and Religion, ANT 376 Folklore, and ANT 320 Women and Culture. In Maxwell, such students are also eligible to compete for the teaching assistantship slots in two gateway courses for freshmen: MAX 123 Critical Issues for US and MAX 132, Global Community. Moreover, participation in the Future Professoriate Program means additional money from The Graduate School. International students are also eligible for all of these funding opportunities.
In addition, other kinds of monies are available. There are competitions for research grants: for summer money from The Graduate School, and from the Maxwell School through the Roscoe-Martin fund. In the last few years, several graduate students in Anthropology have won these grants each year, enabling them to do summer field work abroad and domestically.
We encourage our graduate students to compete for external awards, primarily for their Ph.D. fieldwork. In recent years, Syracuse graduate students in Anthropology have been highly successful in these competitions, receiving awards from Fulbright, Wenner-Gren, NSF, Rockefeller, and the American Institute of Indian Studies.
Our policy on student loans is that students must show progress on a yearly basis for the Department to support repayment deferral.
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