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FAQs for PhD Applicants

Frequently asked questions for ph.d. applicants, what do i need to complete my application.

A complete application to the Laney Graduate School must include these elements:

• Application
• Transcripts
• Standardized Test Scores (TOEFL, TOEFL iBT "Special Home Edition", or IELTS for international students (GRE not required but will be considered if submitted))
• Statement of Purpose
• Three Letters of Recommendation
• $75 Application Fee

To help you complete your application, you might want to review these web pages:

• Our Application Requirements page explains what is required from the Laney Graduate School and provides links to program pages that explain program-specific requirements .
• Our Admissions FAQ page contains answers to a number of common questions.

If you run into problems, there are a couple of places you might turn to:

• For technical issues with the application, contact [email protected] .
• For questions about program requirements, contact Computer Science & Informatics directly: [email protected] .

Does Emory offer financial assistance?

How much is tuition.

Tuition fees information can be found online .

* Students accepted to the MS Computer Science program are eligible to receive a 50% tuition scholarship

What is the minimum score for the TOEFL exam?

Do you accept ielts if so, what is the minimum score for admission.

Yes, our program does accept IELTS. 7 is the minimum score for admission.

Is it possible to have my TOEFL requirement waived?

If applicants graduate from an accredited institution in the United States, then they will be exempt from taking the TOEFL exam.

Should I send my TOEFL and GRE scores to your department through ETS?

Yes, applicants may submit their test scores to Emory via ETS. Emory's code is: 5187

Transcripts?

Unofficial transcripts issued by the Registrar to you (the student) are acceptable. You are required to submit one transcript from each post-secondary institution attended, present school included. International transcripts must be translated and notarized. If accepted to our institution, you will be required to submit your official final transcript. As part of the online application, upload a scanned transcript from each post-secondary institution you have attended, present school included. The transcripts must be issued by the registrar’s office. Unofficial copies issued to the student are fine. We will not accept printed web pages from the University’s student information system. If you submit this, the processing of your application may be delayed. If you want to upload an electronic transcript issued by your registrar's office, make sure we can open that document without passwords or other security information. Later on, if you are admitted and accept, then you will need to submit official copies (sealed or sent to us directly from a university registrar). Transcripts that are not in English must be translated and notarized. Please scan both the original and the translated versions, and submit them together as one file using the online application.

Recommendation Questions

May i add recommenders after submitting my application, must all letters of recommendation be submitted before the application deadline.

Preferably, yes. If you are unable to have your recommender to submit your recommendation letters before the deadline, please have them directly send their recommendation letters to: [email protected]

May I apply to more than one program at your institution?

Applicants will need to submit a separate application for each program.

Does this program give STEM extension?

Yes, Emory University does offer international students F1 STEM-OPT extensions. Our advisors in International Student & Scholar Services offer workshops throughout the semester to help students understand the guidelines.

I also wanted to visit the Emory campus. How can I schedule it?

Please contact the program at [email protected] if you wish to meet with program faculty, staff, and students. If you wish to simply visit the Emory campus, you are welcome to do so at any time.

Does Emory University offer conditional acceptance?

Unfortunately, the Emory Laney Graduate School does not offer conditional admission.

Does your institution accept applications for the Spring semester?

The application cycle is only for the Fall semesters. We do not currently offer Spring admissions.

PhD in Finance

Creating real financial impact, influencing practice through theory, finance curriculum timeline, faculty and published work, finance faculty.

Tetyana Balyuk

Jeffrey Busse

Tarun Chordia

Rohan Ganduri

T. Clifton Green

Narasimhan Jegadeesh

William Mann

Gonzalo Maturana

Shehzad L. Mian

Jeffrey Rosensweig

Jay Shanken

Finance phd students.

Zhishuo Han

Ishitha Kumar

Jianzhang Lin

Dmitry Malakhov

Avinash Kumar Pandey

Recent News

How One Master of Analytical Finance Student Plans to Do Good With Her Degree 

Go from Beginner to Analytical Finance Expert

“50 Best Undergraduate Business Professors of 2023,” Yahoo! Finance

“Dump your bonds, this new research says,” Morningstar

“Dump your bonds, this new research says,” MarketWatch

“Why bitcoin ETFs launch won’t be a ‘buy the rumor, sell the news’ event,” Morningstar

“All memes aside, crypto buyers aren’t any different from stock investors,” MarketWatch

Ray Hill Bids Farewell to Goizueta

“Does winning the lottery actually ruin your life?” Financial Times

“After the SVB crisis, what’s next for venture capital?”, Fast Company

“With financial uncertainty, is it time to put your money in gold?”, MSN News

“Beating the stock market over time is next to impossible, but you should still try.” MarketWatch

Pursuing a phd in finance.

PhD in Health Services Research and Health Policy

Doctoral program in health services research and health policy, rollins school of public health department of health policy and management.

The PhD in Health Services Research and Health Policy at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University is a full-time program that trains researchers in the fields of health policy, health economics, health management, and health services research.

Students take doctoral-level classes in the Department of Economics, the Department of Health Policy and Management, the Goizueta business school, and elsewhere throughout the university. Many students also collaborate with faculty on research.

Following the completion of their coursework, students work on their independent research for their dissertation.

What You’ll Learn

Students in our program take classes in one of two tracks: Economics or Organizations and Management .

Economics Track

Students in the Economics track take graduate-level classes in the Department of Economics, alongside students pursing a PhD in economics. The economics track prepares students to apply economic theory to evaluate topics in health and health policy.

Organizations and Management Track

Students in Organizations and Management take advanced and doctoral-level courses in Emory’s Goizueta School of Business. The track prepares students to examine questions pertaining to access, quality, cost of health care and health outcomes. Students in this track will learn how theories and concepts from fields such as organizational behavior and technology management can be applied to medicine and health care organizations.

Core Courses and More

All students in the program take classes in statistical methods, research design, and health policy seminar. Students have room to take electives, which could be any graduate-level class at Emory or nearby universities (Georgia State, Georgia Tech).

For more information, please see our program brochure and handbook .

What Can You Do With a Graduate Degree in Health Services Research and Health Policy?

The program prepares students for a variety of research-focused careers in academia, think tanks, foundations, government agencies, pharmaceutical firms, and consulting.  

Our graduates are currently employed at:

• the American Cancer Society
• the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Emory University
• Weill Cornell Medical School
• Harvard Medical School
• IMPAQ International
• Johnson & Johnson
• MD Anderson
• National Taiwan University
• Northern Illinois University
• Northwestern University
• Taipei Medical University
• The Urban Institute
• Trilliant Health
• University of California at San Francisco
• Carnegie Mellon
• Washington University (St. Louis)
• The University of Virginia

We discourage applications from students who view a PhD as a credential or who want to focus exclusively on administration, management, or advocacy. There are other professional degrees that are better suited to those types of careers.

What Type of Research Will You Do in the Health Services Research and Health Policy PhD Program?

Students perform research on a wide variety of topics related to delivery of medical care, insurance, and the determinants of health. Some examples of the papers that students have published from their dissertations include: 

The effect of Medicaid expansion on crime reduction: Evidence from HIFA-waiver expansions. Journal of Public Economics 2017. (Heifei Wen, Ph.D. 2015)

Heuristics in the delivery room. Science 2021. (Manasvini Singh, Ph.D. 2020)

Are two heads better than one or do too many cooks spoil the broth? The tradeoff between physician division of labor and patient continuity of care for older adults with complex chronic conditions. Health Services Research 2016. (Kenton Johnston, Ph.D. 2015).

Effect of Medicaid disenrollment on health care utilization among adults with mental health disorders. Medical Care 2019 (Xu Ji, Ph.D. 2017).

Patterns of use and survival outcomes of positron emission tomography for initial staging in elderly follicular lymphoma patients . Leukemia & Lymphoma 2017 (Ashish Rai, Ph.D. 2015)

Admissions Requirements

For detailed information about admissions, please see our program brochure .

Applicants should provide:

• a transcript,
• statement of purpose,
• resume/CV, and
• three letters of recommendation.

Please note:

• GRE scores are optional.
• Applicants do not need to have a master’s degree.

Visit Emory’s Laney Graduate School website to apply now .

You do not need to contact the program or faculty prior to applying. We give equal attention to all applications, regardless of whether applicants know faculty or have had prior contact with them. We do not routinely meet with applicants prior to the application deadline. However, if you have a specific question about the program that is not addressed in this document or would like to get a better sense if the program is a good fit for you, please send your question to the director, David Howard, [email protected] .

September 11, 2023 

Application opens for Fall 2024

December 1, 2023

Application deadline

Late January-Early February, 2024

Offer letters sent to successful applicants 

Program faculty

Students have wide leeway to work with faculty at any Emory school or department. Most students work with the faculty on the list below.

Department of Health Policy and Management

Kathleen Adams (Ph.D. Economics, University of Colorado) Risk behavior, maternal and child health, insurance coverage, Medicaid policy.

Sarah Blake (Ph.D. Public Policy, Georgia State/Georgia Institute of Technology) Maternal and child health, reproductive health, implementation science.

Puneet Chehal (Ph.D. Public Policy, Duke) Medicaid and chronic illness in underserved populations.

Janet Cummings (Ph.D. Health Policy, UCLA) Mental health and substance abuse policy.

Benjamin Druss (M.D., New York University) Mental health and substance abuse policy.

Maria Dieci (Ph.D. Health Policy, UC Berkeley) Health economics, global health and development economics.

Ilana Graetz (Ph.D. Health Policy, UC Berkeley) Health information technology, quality improvement.

David Howard (Ph.D. Health Policy, Harvard) Health economics, reimbursement policy, pharmaceutical markets.

Joseph Lipscomb (Ph.D. Economics, University of North Carolina) Health outcomes assessment and improvement.

Victoria Phillips (Ph.D. Economics, Oxford) Health economics, cost-effectiveness analysis.

Adam Wilk (Ph.D. Health Policy, University of Michigan) Access to care and Medicaid, coverage and payment for kidney failure treatment.

Courtney Yarborough (Ph.D. Public Policy, University of Georgia) Substance abuse policy, pharmaceutical markets.

Affiliated faculty in other departments at Emory

Michal Hórny (Ph.D. Health Services Research, Boston University) Department of Radiology. Health insurance benefit design, costs of care, price transparency, access to care.

Xu Ji (Ph.D. Health Policy, Emory) Department of Pediatrics. Health care quality, health outcomes, access to health care.

Dio Kavalieratos (Ph.D. Health Policy, University of North Carolina) Department of Family Medicine and Palliative Care. End-of-life care, implementation science.

Sara Markowitz (Ph.D. Economics, CUNY) Department of Economics. Health economics, labor economics, maternal and child health. Ian McCarthy (Ph.D. Economics, University of Indiana) Department of Economics. Health economics, industrial organization.

Evan Saltzman (Ph.D. Managerial Science and Applied Economics, University of Pennsylvania) Department of Economics. Health economics, industrial organization.

Current PhD Students

Lamont Sutton

Nada Boualam

Sonia Tetlow

Xinyue Zhang

Marissa Coloske

Martha Wetzel

Paul George

Jingxuan Zhao

Alex Soltoff

Elizabeth Staton

Zhuoqi Yang

Cristian Ramos

Financial Information

Financial support for students includes a tuition scholarship, health insurance and stipend Funding is guaranteed as long as the student is making satisfactory progress toward their degree.

GDBBS Support Package

All students admitted to the GDBBS receive a support package that includes:

Stipend Support

Tuition scholarship, health insurance subsidy, emory competitive fellowships.

Emory offers several fellowships to outstanding applicants each year. The Programs nominate applicants for these fellowships. There are no additional forms for the applicant to complete, but all application material must arrive by the deadline date.

George W. Woodruff Fellowship

Centennial scholar, laney graduate school fellowship, cost of living.

The cost of living in suburban Atlanta compares very favorably to other university cities, and in only rare instances is the cost of living in the Emory area higher than that of comparable universities.

Housing Resources

University housing, off campus housing.