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Award Allocation and Deadlines Summary (further details in each program section below)

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In 2024-25 all departments were given one Regents stipend allocation to utilize in recruitment over a two year span. For those departments who did not utilize their Regents allocation in 24-25, or had their offer declined prior to the start of the 24-25 academic year, they will have the ability to make offers in the 25-26 recruitment season. Centrally funded Regents in the Disciplines stipend years include coverage of in-state tuition and fees, UC Student Health Insurance, a $32,500 stipend during the academic year, and a $5,000 trailing Summer stipend, trailing the recipients first year. This fellowship does not include NRST, so Departments must pay NRST for non-resident students in their first year from block-grant or other discretionary funds.

IMPORTANT: In an effort to evaluate opportunities to streamline the Regents in the Discipline awarding process, and reduce burden on departments in crafting award letters, the Graduate Division examined trends in the student support offered in Regents awards. It was determined that a significant number of Regents offers followed a common pattern of aid, including one or two Regents stipend years, and three or four employment years.

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Should a department instead wish to customize their Regents offer in a way that does not follow the standard offer, there is now a “Alternate template” Regents offer letter option which produces an offer letter that notifies the recipient that they have been selected as a Regents fellow, describes the Regents student aid fellowship stipend(s) being offered, and basic features of the award, including that it includes five years minimum of full support. Departments can then use the “Department portion of Regents Alternate Award Letter template” Regents in the Disc template to add the specific, more customized support offer being added to the applicant’s base Regents package. The departmental complementary supplement offer may be sent directly to the student by the admitting department. Students must may also accept this Regents Base offer electronically in their EApp profile. Departments may either indicate in their complementary supplement letter that students can accept the combined offer by accepting the Regents offer in EApp, or chose to request the applicant sign their supplement letter and remit it to the department as well. Samples of the Alternate template letters can be found here, and the Department portion of Regents Alternate Award Letter template Regents in the Disciplines supplement template can be found here. Graduate Division staff is also available to work directly with departments who have questions about crafting any of these offers.

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Other Related Details

• All Regents ITD awards will be required to contain a minimum of five full years of support, the same as in prior years.

• The Graduate Division considers a 'year of funding' to include at a minimum payment of in-state tuition and fees, NRST if applicable, UC Student Health Insurance, and either salary from employment or a student aid fellowship stipend of at least $32,500 for Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters.

• Domestic non-residents are expected to establish residency after their first year of study and international students receive coverage of NRST after their first year through advancement via the International Doctoral Recruitment Fellowship (IDRF) provided they do so within department specific time-to-advancement standards.

• All Regents ITD awards will either have (a) a Regents stipend in year one only, or (b) for departments selecting to move one of the stipend years from their Central Recruitment Fellowship to their Regents ITD, Regents stipends in years one and five.

• Other aid composing the minimum five year offers will come from department resources, typically in the form of Academic Employment.

• Regents ITD awards will be issued by departments via AppReview/EApp in the same manner as has been the case in prior years. Departments will again be required to admit students being offered one of these fellowships before the Regents ITD offer is made to the student.

• Departments need to ensure that within a two year period, one of their centrally supported recruitment fellowships is offered to a diverse student who meets the provided diversity criteria. This means that within the period of the 24-25 (last year) and 25-26 (this year) recruitment cycles one of your central awards needs to be or have been offered to a diverse candidate.

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