This page is intended to assist grant administrators in CoS in the preparation of proposal budgets. Please note that the assistantship stipends listed below are not guaranteed. Instead, they are subject to annual review and approval since they depend on the availability of funds.
To provide an appropriate level of support for Graduate Research Assistantships, and to provide parity with state-supported Graduate Teaching Assistantships, the following stipend requests should be made for all research grant proposals:
GRA stipend request
2026-27 $37,500
2027-28 $39,000
2028-29 $40,500
2029-30 $42,000
2030-31 $44,000
2031-32 $45,500
The brief statement below should be included in the budget justification of proposals.
Graduate student stipends
The proposal budget includes Graduate Research Assistantships with a stipend of $37,500 per year for the 2026-27 academic year. Per guidelines provided by Georgia Tech's College of Sciences, the stipend is increased by ~4% per year for the subsequent years of the award period to better support our students in relation to the cost of living in Atlanta and relative to students at peer institutions. For more information, please see: www.cos.gatech.edu/graduate-stipends
For grants submitted to agencies that do not include escalation of stipends, it is recommended that the budget request include the average student stipend over the period of the project.
The stipend amount in this statement is subject to review each fall for the following academic year. In late fall/early spring, the approved stipend amount will be included in offers of admission to graduate programs for the following fall semester. The assistantship stipends listed above are not guaranteed. They are subject to annual review and approval since they depend on the availability of funds.
