Financial Support

PhD Tuition Scholarship & Financial Support

TTIC is committed to supporting its students fully for five years of doctoral education contingent on satisfactory status. No financial aid forms are required when applying to TTIC’s PhD program. Admitted students will receive a full-tuition scholarship (at $30,000/year). The annual living support stipend is paid monthly, with the amount disclosed in admission letters. This stipend requires no service in the first year. In the second year and beyond, students become Research Assistants to receive wages.

TTIC also covers the cost of:

• student health insurance for the first five years of the program with an Institute sponsored health insurance plan, with 25% reimbursement of a qualifying partner’s health insurance premiums.
• student services fee that allows for all the student privilege and services on campus (including wellness and athletic center access, campus mass transit and rideshares, library access, networking services, etc.)
• a lump sum paid at the start of the year to support dental, vision, and transportation expenses
• student visa fees incurred at time of initial matriculation

All students receive a start-up equipment budget of $3,500 to acquire necessary tech equipment through the Director of IT. Additional research funding (for publications and conference attendance) may be provided throughout the student’s academic residency as various milestones are met.

Partha Niyogi Memorial Fellowship

Newly admitted students have the opportunity to be awarded the Partha Niyogi Memorial Fellowship. The Partha Niyogi Memorial Fellowship is funded by the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago endowment and supports select students entering the PhD program, and provides support at a higher level than base stipends over the awardee’s first year in the program. The fellowship is intended to recognize outstanding applicants to the PhD. program, based on academic merit and promise.

Partha Niyogi (1967-2010) was the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago and made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition unified by the central idea of learning. Professor Niyogi also served as a member of TTIC’s Local Academic Advisory Committee, contributing to the formation and development of the TTIC program and curriculum, and to strong connections between the Institute and the University of Chicago.