[visionlist] Resources for foreign graduate students

[Patrick Cavanagh]

Hi,

    We would like to help promising vision and visual neuroscience  
students from developing countries choose appropriate schools for  
graduate studies. To do so, we are making a list of universities from  
around the world that provide support for foreign graduate students.  
For example, Stanford Medical School, like many American  
universities, uses federal training grants or fellowships for tuition  
and stipend support during the first two years, and so can only  
support US students (or foreigners with "green" cards). At the other  
end of the spectrum, Harvard supports all accepted applicants with  
university funds. This distinction is critical for students that do  
not have any other resources to call on. Countries like Nigeria,  
Iran, and Vietnam train medical students, often the best students in  
their countries, and some of these would like to continue studies in  
the neurosciences but have trouble finding programs that have support  
for them. Please send us descriptions of your department’s support  
for graduate students from outside your country. We listed some  
sample descriptions below and we will share our final list with CVNet  
when it is ready.



Harvard: All students receive offer of free tuition and 3 years of  
stipend (first 2 years and last year) with guaranteed teaching to  
fill years of no stipend. The Psychology Dept takes 1, sometimes 2  
vision graduate students per year. Neurobiology in the Medical School  
supports 1 ½ foreign PhD students per year in all areas of neurobiology.



Stanford Medical School:  All students are supported from federal  
training grants or federal individual fellowships (NSF, NDSEG, etc)  
during their first two years so there is no support for foreign  
students.  Financial support thereafter is the responsibility of the  
individual thesis adviser.





Bill Newsome, Stanford University, bill at monkeybiz.stanford.edu

Patrick Cavanagh, Harvard University, patrick at wjh.harvard.edu