LLM Scholarships and Awards

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NYU Law has dedicated considerable institutional resources to scholarships for full-time LLM students. These merit-based awards recognize top talent from countries around the world.

Scholarships that cover a larger percentage of the cost of attendance are limited in number annually. In most cases, admitted students who are selected for an award receive partial-tuition support for the full-time LLM program.

Hauser Global Scholars Program

The Hauser Global Scholarship is the most prestigious honor awarded to exceptional LLM students. This merit-based scholarship provides full tuition and a stipend to assist with living expenses, such as rent, the cost of textbooks and other study materials.

The Hauser Global Scholars—typically 10 per year—reflect the breadth, diversity and achievement of NYU School of Law’s graduate student body. Scholars are chosen on the basis of their intellectual and leadership ability and their capacity to participate productively in a global community of scholars and practitioners.

Hauser Global Scholar candidates must be graduates of a law school outside of the United States.

The Hauser Experience

Edefe Ojomo LLM '15, JSD '20 talks about the benefits of being a Hauser Global Scholar.

Current & Former Hauser Scholars

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Podell Global Graduate Legal Scholarship

The Podell Global Graduate Legal Scholarship provides for one LLM student's tuition, reasonable living expenses (such as for textbooks, rent, and other study supplies), and one round-trip economy airfare to and from New York. Application for this scholarship is open to international LLM students who:

demonstrate financial need;
have accumulated a record of superior academic merit; and
are citizens and reside in one of the countries listed as Low-Income or Lower-Middle-Income Economies by the World Bank.

While no documentation is required to apply, admitted students who are notified that they are finalists for the Podell Scholarship may be required to submit financial documentation for themselves and immediate family to demonstrate financial need.

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Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholarships

The Committee awards a limited number of merit-based, full-tuition Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholarships to full-time LLM students.

Vanderbilt Scholars are an elite group of extraordinarily talented LLM candidates who have demonstrated outstanding academic promise and/or achievement in their respective field(s) of interest.

Dean’s Graduate Awards

These merit-based, partial-tuition awards recognize full-time LLMs who have demonstrated significant academic promise and/or achievement in their respective fields.