Few sociology departments in the country are able to match the level of resources that we now provide to our graduate students. In addition to TAships, RAships, and fellowships (e.g., from the Haynes Foundation, Irvine Foundation, NIA, USC College, USC Graduate School, and elsewhere), we have recently instituted a new program of graduate student awards. Our graduate students can apply for as many as three different types of additional funding each year:

1. Travel - to pay for costs related to participation in professional meetings;
2. Dissertation Research and Development - to pay for costs related to dissertation research and/or specialized training seminars around the country; and
3. Faculty/Graduate Student Collaboration - to provide research money to graduate students who are working on a paper collaboratively with a faculty member.

The diversity of our program and our faculty, the collegial and collaborative nature of the relationships between our faculty members and graduate students, and the great city we live in all make USC Sociology a unique and rewarding place for students to study.