Fellowship Available to Ph.D. Applicants

A Gilbert Foundation fellowship is available to qualified Ph.D. applicants.  Annual stipends can range up to $25,000 or $30,000 depending on degree and other factors. The fellowship also includes a full tuition waiver. To be competitive Ph.D. applicants must meet the following criteria: a 3.6 cumulative graduate GPA; a GRE score of 1,200 (Verbal/Quantitative each above 500); or a 3.75 graduate GPA if the undergraduate GPA is below 3.0 and/or 3.25 for the last two years.

 Louisiana State University is a comprehensive Research I institution enrolling more than 28,000 students. The campus is located in south Louisiana, 60 minutes from New Orleans, close to Louisiana’s Cajun country, and in the heart of the state’s abundant forestry, wildlife, and fisheries resources. 

 The School of Renewable Natural Resources has a teaching, research, and extension faculty of 30, which includes adjunct professors of the US Geological Survey’s Louisiana Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. The faculty in the School is committed to innovative teaching, state-of-the-art research, and quality extension programs designed to train well-rounded natural resource professionals.  For more information about graduate studies in the School of Renewable Natural Resources you are encouraged to visit the School’s web page (http://www.rnr.lsu.edu) and the Graduate School web page (http://gradlsu.gs.lsu.edu/).