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*There is no fee for PhD applications
Required Application Materials
PhD Application Details:
Financial Information:
- For PhD students in good academic standing the department provides a stipend and pays all tuition costs.
- PhD students are also provided a health insurance plan by the university.
- To increase your stipend and improve your chances of admission, US applicants should apply to national graduate fellowship programs.
Deadlines:
- All application materials must arrive before 1/5/24 for Fall 2024 admissions.
- Exceptional candidates will be considered on a case by case basis for spring admission.
Application Process:
- Applicants submit their required materials
- The applicant pool is narrowed to those to be extended an interview.
- Applicants residing in the US are invited on a three day paid visit to the department in early March.
- Candidates will be interviewed, learn about our research, and enjoy social events.
- Students outside of the US will be interviewed by telephone.
- A faculty committee will identify a set of the interviewed students to admit.
- Admission offers are given on a rolling basis until the incoming class is filled.
Contact:
- Please email our PhD program coordinator with any additional questions.
MS Application Details:
Deadlines
- The deadline for Fall 2024 admission is February 1, 2024.
- All required materials (including transcripts and letters of recommendation) must arrive before the deadline.
Financial Information
- Application Fee: $70
- Applicants may request a waiver of the application fee in cases of financial hardship. After completing the application except for payment, an applicant may email a request explaining their special circumstances to our master's program coordinator at nquattro@cs.rochester.edu.
- Partial tuition discounts may be available for qualified students.
- We do not offer full scholarships or teaching assistantships to MS students.
Contact:
- Please email our MS program coordinator with any additional questions.
Required Materials For PhD and MS Applications
- Personal Statement (Statement of Purpose)
- For PhD statements, including descriptions of past research experiences, how your training has prepared you for a conducting research, and a high-level discussion of the areas you want to work on may help provide the admissions committee insight into your fit in the program.
- An expressed interest in work for a specified lab or faculty member may also be beneficial.
- Diversity Statement
- If you are unsure about what to include in your statement, please see UR's Career Center Page for guidance.
- Transcripts
- Please upload scans of your unofficial transcripts to your application --official transcripts will only be required if you are admitted.
- GRE Scores
- PhD applicants are not required to submit GRE Scores
- MS applicants are required to submit GRE Scores.
- English Language Proficiency Scores
- International students must submit one of the following exam results unless they meet the requirements listed in the English Language Proficiency Exam Waiver section:
- TOEFL
- TOEFL iBT Home Edition
- IELTS
- Duolingo
- Information on how to submit exam scores are given in the How to Submit your Exam Scores section. Scores more than two years old from the application deadline are not valid.
- International students must submit one of the following exam results unless they meet the requirements listed in the English Language Proficiency Exam Waiver section:
- Three Letters of Recommendation
There is no specific minimum threshold on GRE or English language proficiency scores. The admission decision is made based on the overall application package.
English Language Proficiency Exam Waiver
The English proficiency test requirement is waived for citizens of the following countries:
- Australia
- Canada
- Commonwealth Caribbean Nations
- Ghana
- Ireland
- Kenya
- Liberia
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Uganda
- UK
- Virgin Islands
The requirement may also be waived if a student has completed at least three years of postsecondary study in one of the countries listed above or the United States. Scores more than two years old from the application deadline are not valid. We reserve the right to require demonstration of English proficiency, even if you have received your degree from one of the above mentioned countries.
How to Submit your Exam Scores
- GRE and TOEFL scores can be submitted using the code 2928.
- Duolingo scores can be submitted by selecting the University of Rochester as the recipient of the scores.
- For IELTS scores, please use the following address:
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ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships | $5k | Researching HPC, networking, | |
Apple PhD fellowship in AI/ML | $40k stipend + $5k travel. | 3-4 | Invite Only |
Center for Machine Learning and Health Fellowships in Digital Health Innovation | Researching digital health | ||
Croucher Scholarships for Doctoral Study | $35.7k stipend | Permanent resident of Hong Kong | |
DoD SMART Fellowship | Citizen of US, AU, CA, NZ, or UK | ||
Ford Foundation Fellowships | $27k | US citizens or permanent residents | |
GEM Graduate Fellowship | 0 | US citizen or permanent resident | |
Google PhD Fellowship | Coursework completed | ||
Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity (GFSD) | $20k stipend | US citizens | |
Hertz Fellowship | $34k stipend | 1 | US citizen or permanent resident |
IBM Fellowship | $40k stipend | 2+ years remaining | |
J.P. Morgan PhD Fellowship | 3-4 | ||
Jane Street Graduate Fellowships | $45k stipend + $5k | 2-6 | |
Korean American Scholarship Foundation | $500 - $5k | ||
Link Foundation Fellowship | $34k | Working on Modeling, | |
Meta Research PhD Fellowship | $42k | ||
Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship | $42k stipend | 3 | |
NDSEG Fellowship | $43.2k stipend + $5k travel | 1-2 | US citizen or national |
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) | $37k stipend + $16k education | 1-2 | US citizen or permanent resident |
NVIDIA Fellowship | $60k | 2+ | |
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship | $100k | Teams of 2 students | |
Siebel Scholars Program | $25K stipend + $10K | Final | |
Soros Fellowships for New Americans | $25k stipend + $20k tuition | 1-2 | Must be under 31 years old |
Two Sigma PhD Fellowship | $75k stipend + $10k | 3-4 | |
US DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF) | $45k stipend | 0-1 | US citizens or permanent resident |
US DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program | US citizen or permanent resident |