Student Support

At Rensselaer, we recognize that the potential to change the world lies within each of our students, and we fully understand that continued investment in their future is critical.

Learn more about Rensselaer Students.

Approximately 94 percent of our undergraduate student body of 5368 receives some form of financial aid. Yet our endowed scholarship resources leave us well behind competing institutions.

An endowed scholarship (unrestricted) may be established for a minimum gift of $200,000, and a restricted scholarship fund may be established for $250,000, to ensure a student's future promise. You can also support a Patroon Scholar with a multi-year gift pledge.

Two-thirds of our 1,200 resident graduate students currently receive financial support from fellowships, teaching assistantships, and research assistantships.

An endowed graduate fellowship may be established for a minimum gift of $400,000; $750,000 is required to establish an endowed post-doctoral fellowship fund. Learn about supporting a Patroon Fellow.

Each year at the Celebration of Student Support, scholarship donors meet the students that they support.

Learn about the Carol D. and Samuel C. Wait, Jr. ’53 Undergraduate Research Scholars endowed fund.

Give Now Online or Contact Us to make your scholarship or fellowship gift.