Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

What Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences does

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) is the largest school at Yale University after Yale College and the only Yale school authorized to award MA, MS, MPhil, and PhD degrees. It administers more than 70 departments and programs spanning the humanities, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences, and engineering, serving a student population that includes prospective PhD students (fully funded through at least five years of tuition coverage plus stipends of $52,046–$53,629 annually), self-funded or program-funded Master's students, certificate seekers, and post-baccalaureate students. The school is led by Dean Lynn Cooley and supported by associate deans covering academic support, graduate education, and admissions/financial support.

Operationally, GSAS runs a sales-led recruitment motion through its website and online application portal (apply.grad.yale.edu), with fall-only matriculation and admissions decisions released in February or March. Revenue is primarily tuition-based ($52,400 per academic year for full-time study in 2026–2027), supplemented by donor-funded fellowships (Gruber Science Fellowship, Stella M. Hammond Planetary Solutions Fellowship), Teaching Fellow compensation, and health coverage fees; PhD tuition is substantially underwritten by university fellowships, making the school heavily endowment-dependent. The technology stack is third-party-leaning, built on Canvas (LMS), Yale Hub (student self-service portal), Yale Course Search, and Zotero — with no proprietary AI/ML capabilities.

Strategic positioning centers on Yale's brand premium, comprehensive PhD funding, and an unusually deep exchange ecosystem including the 11-institution IvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program plus international partners (Sciences Po, Bocconi, ENS Paris, UCL, Hebrew University, University of Bonn, DAAD). Recent strategic moves include the 2025 launches of the Stella M. Hammond Planetary Solutions Fellowship and the Peter Salovey and Marta Moret Data Science Fellows Program (with inaugural 20-student cohort named in 2026), signaling expansion into climate and data science verticals. As a non-profit academic division within Yale University, GSAS has no independent ownership, no external funding rounds, and no M&A activity — it operates as a traditional academic unit within a private research university.

Name

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Legal name

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Website

https://gsas.yale.edu

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the largest academic school at Yale University, offering PhD, MA, MS, and MPhil degrees across 70+ departments and serving prospective graduate students with fully funded doctoral packages, exchange programs, and emerging fellowships in planetary solutions and data science.

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Product category

Higher Education Services

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (61131), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310)

akta.pro primary industry

STEM-Focused Research Universities (Engineering & Applied Sciences) (EDAHABAB)

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Technical Universities with Computing, Data & AI Focus (EDAHAEAK), Technical Universities with Energy, Materials & Sustainability Focus (EDAHAEAL)

Keywords

• Graduate education
• Doctoral programs
• Research training
• Academic fellowships
• Higher education services

Headquarters

HQ city

New Haven

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Tuition Revenue: Full-time graduate study tuition of $52,400 annually for the 2026-2027 academic year. PhD students receive fellowship covering full tuition through at least five years. Master's students are responsible for paying tuition or obtaining funding from program or external sources.
2. Fellowships and Grants: Various fellowships including Gruber Science Fellowship, Stella M. Hammond Planetary Solutions Fellowship, and external awards that provide stipend bonuses to PhD students
3. Health Coverage Fees: Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage at $3,764 for twelve months for students. PhD students receive Health Fellowship Award covering this cost.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

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Core offering

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the largest school at Yale University after Yale College and the only Yale school to offer MA, MS, MPhil, and PhD degrees. It delivers graduate-level academic programs across over 70 departments spanning humanities, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences, and engineering, accompanied by fellowship funding, teaching opportunities, and student support services for enrolled students.

Product overview

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the largest school at Yale University after Yale College, offering a comprehensive portfolio of academic degree programs including PhD Programs, Master's Programs, Certificate Programs, and Post-Baccalaureate Programs spanning over 70 departments and programs across humanities, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences, and engineering. The institution provides extensive student support services including Financial Support Services (fellowships, stipends, scholarships), the Teaching Fellow Program, Exchange Programs (IvyPlus and International), and specialized fellowship programs such as the Stella M. Hammond Planetary Solutions Fellowship (established 2025) and the Peter Salovey and Marta Moret Data Science Fellows Program (established 2025). Student-facing platforms include Yale Hub (self-service portal) and Canvas (learning management system). The school operates as a single unified institution rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture, with academic programs as the core offering supplemented by financial, academic, and student support services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Stella M. Hammond Planetary Solutions Fellowship: Yale's premier doctoral fellowship training interdisciplinary leaders to solve climate change, biodiversity loss, and planetary crises. Each fellow receives $3,500 increment to stipend for each year of the two-year fellowship plus $2,000 research support budget.
• Peter Salovey and Marta Moret Data Science Fellows Program
• Gruber Science Fellowship at Yale
• Combined PhD Programs
• IvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program
• International Exchange Programs
• Associates in Teaching Program

Products and services

• PhD Programs Doctoral degree programs offered across over 70 departments and programs spanning humanities, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences, and engineering. All PhD students receive a full funding package including tuition coverage, stipend, and health coverage for at least five years.
• Master's Programs Master's degree programs (MA, MS, MPhil) offered across various academic disciplines at the Graduate School. Tuition is $52,400 per academic year for full-time study (2026-2027); students are responsible for paying tuition or obtaining funding from program or external sources.
• Certificate Programs Certificate programs providing secondary competency in a related field while pursuing a PhD, including academic program certificates and certificates in training.
• Post-Baccalaureate Programs Programs for students who have completed a bachelor's degree and wish to pursue additional undergraduate-level coursework.
• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program Summer research opportunity program for undergraduate students to engage in research activities at Yale.
• Teaching Fellow Program Program providing PhD students with teaching experience as part of their academic training and professional development. Teaching Fellows are compensated (TF10: $5,673 per term; TF20: $11,347 per term for the 2025-26 academic year).
• Exchange Programs (IvyPlus and International) Domestic and international exchange opportunities for PhD students to study and conduct research at partner institutions including the 11 IvyPlus partners (UC Berkeley, Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Princeton, Stanford) and international partners such as Sciences Po, Bocconi University, University of Bonn, ENS Paris, Hebrew University, and UCL.
• Stella M. Hammond Planetary Solutions Fellowship Yale's premier doctoral fellowship training interdisciplinary leaders to solve climate change, biodiversity loss, and planetary crises, established in 2025. Each fellow receives a $3,500 increment to stipend for each year of the two-year fellowship plus a $2,000 research support budget.
• Peter Salovey and Marta Moret Data Science Fellows Program Program established in 2025 for Yale PhD students from any discipline to complement their training with data science activities, mentorship, professional development, and funding for travel, workshops, and research computing. The inaugural cohort of 20 early-career PhD students was named spanning biological sciences, physical sciences and engineering, data science, social sciences, and humanities.

Quantifiable outcome

• Full PhD funding for at least five years including tuition and stipend
• +3 more outcomes

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Partnerships

41 partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• University of California at BerkeleycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program partner allowing PhD students to study and conduct research at UC Berkeley for a term or academic year at no additional tuition cost.
• Brown UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program partner allowing PhD students to study and conduct research at Brown for a term or academic year at no additional tuition cost.
• University of ChicagocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program partner allowing PhD students to study and conduct research at UChicago for a term or academic year at no additional tuition cost.
• Columbia UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program partner allowing PhD students to study and conduct research at Columbia for a term or academic year at no additional tuition cost.
• Cornell UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program partner allowing PhD students to study and conduct research at Cornell for a term or academic year at no additional tuition cost.
• Dartmouth CollegecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program partner allowing PhD students to study and conduct research at Dartmouth for a term or academic year at no additional tuition cost.
• Harvard UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program partner allowing PhD students to study and conduct research at Harvard for a term or academic year at no additional tuition cost.
• Massachusetts Institute of TechnologycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program partner allowing PhD students to study and conduct research at MIT for a term or academic year at no additional tuition cost.
• University of PennsylvaniacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program partner allowing PhD students to study and conduct research at UPenn for a term or academic year at no additional tuition cost.
• Princeton UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program partner allowing PhD students to study and conduct research at Princeton for a term or academic year at no additional tuition cost.
• Stanford UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program partner allowing PhD students to study and conduct research at Stanford for a term or academic year at no additional tuition cost.
• Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for Classics PhD students to study and conduct research abroad.
• Aalto University (Finland)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for Economics PhD students to study and conduct research abroad.
• Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for Economics, French, Political Science, and Sociology PhD students.
• Università Bocconi (Italy)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for Economics PhD students to study and conduct research abroad.
• Universität Bonn (Germany)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for Economics PhD students to study and conduct research abroad.
• Universität Mannheim (Germany)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for Economics PhD students to study and conduct research abroad.
• l'École normale supérieure (Paris, France)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for French PhD students to study and conduct research abroad.
• Baden-Württemberg Exchange (Germany)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGraduate School exchange program with institutions in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
• Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for PhD students to study and conduct research abroad.
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerExchange partnership supporting PhD student mobility to and from Germany.
• Hebrew University (Jerusalem)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for PhD students to study and conduct research abroad.
• Hertie School (Berlin)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for PhD students to study and conduct research abroad.
• Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies (Japan)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for PhD students to study Japanese language and culture.
• Royal Holloway, University of LondoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for PhD students to study and conduct research abroad.
• University College London (UCL)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for PhD students to study and conduct research abroad.
• Università di Trento (Italy)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for PhD students to study and conduct research abroad.
• University of Oxford - Department of Politics and International RelationscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for Political Science PhD students.
• Nuffield College, University of OxfordcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for Political Science PhD students.
• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for Public Health PhD students.
• University of Copenhagen (Denmark)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partner for Sociology PhD students.
• Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (Pisa, Italy)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational exchange partnership supporting PhD research in medical humanities.
• MacMillan CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership providing conference travel funding of up to $800 for graduate students, international conference travel grants, and fellowships supporting research and study abroad related to international and area studies.
• Graduate Student AssemblycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization for Conference Travel Fellowship funding supporting graduate student conference participation.
• Yale Planetary SolutionscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership launching the Stella M. Hammond Planetary Solutions Fellowship, Yale's premier doctoral fellowship training interdisciplinary leaders to solve climate change, biodiversity loss, and planetary crises.
• Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science (Yale FDS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration between Graduate School and Yale FDS to deliver the Peter Salovey and Marta Moret Data Science Fellows Program, providing mentorship, support, and professional development for PhD students engaging with data science.
• Poorvu CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership offering professional development opportunities for PhD students including Associates in Teaching Program, Graduate Student Teaching Opportunities, and Beinecke Library Research Fellowships.
• Beinecke LibrarycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides research fellowships for graduate students as professional development opportunities in lieu of standard teaching assignments.
• Yale Center for British ArtcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides graduate museum fellowships for PhD students as professional development opportunities in lieu of standard teaching assignments.
• Yale University Art GallerycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides graduate museum fellowships for PhD students as professional development opportunities.
• Yale Office of the ProvostcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner with Graduate School to create the Emerging Scholars Initiative supporting graduate student development.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• UC Berkeley Graduate Division: Comparable: UC Berkeley's central graduate division administering PhD and Master's programs with funded PhD packages across a similarly broad disciplinary range; peer in scope though public rather than private.

Direct peers

• Princeton Graduate School: Direct peer: Princeton's central graduate school offering PhD and Master's programs across humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering with fully funded PhD students. Comparable size, scope, and Ivy League positioning.
• Stanford Graduate School (VPGE): Direct peer: Stanford's central graduate office coordinating PhD and Master's programs across humanities, social sciences, engineering, and natural sciences with funded PhD cohorts at a peer-leading private research university.
• MIT School of Graduate Studies: Direct peer: MIT's central graduate school administering PhD and Master's programs with full PhD funding. Comparable in funded STEM-heavy graduate education, though leaner on humanities/social sciences than GSAS.
• Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Direct peer: Harvard's central graduate school offering PhD and Master's programs across humanities, social sciences, and STEM with a fully funded PhD model. Closest comparator to GSAS in scope, brand tier, and funding structure.
• Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Direct peer: Columbia's graduate school offering MA, MS, MPhil, and PhD programs across a similarly broad range of disciplines with comparable funding models. Closest structural analog in terms of degree types offered.

Broad incumbents

• Brown Graduate School: Comparable: Brown's graduate school administering PhD and Master's programs with multi-year PhD funding guarantees across sciences, humanities, and social sciences; Ivy League peer.
• Cornell Graduate School: Comparable: Cornell's central graduate school offering PhD and Master's programs across humanities, social sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering with funded PhD support; Ivy League peer.
• University of Chicago Division of the Physical Sciences / Graham School: Comparable: UChicago's graduate divisions administer PhD programs across sciences, humanities, and social sciences with funded PhD cohorts; peer private research university with similar prestige and funding guarantees.
• University of Pennsylvania Graduate School: Comparable: Penn's central graduate school offering funded PhD and Master's programs across multiple schools and disciplines at a peer Ivy League institution with similar program breadth.

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