Caption: Student Funding Trends 1972-2000. (Bottom Graph) Number of students supported by Graduate Research Fellowships (GRA's) (solid line), with mean of 64.7 (dashed line). (Second Graph from Bottom) Number of students supported by external funds (e.g. corporations, foreign governments) (solid line), with mean of 11.0 (dashed line). (Third Graph from Bottom) Number of students supported by Columbia University (CU) Fellowships (solid line), with mean of 15.6 (dashed line). (Top Graph) Number of self-supported students (excluding EES Journalism students) (solid line), with mean of 5.3. Most self-funded students have the expectation of finsihing their degrees soon, but have left CU for employment before defending or depositing their dissertations. Tablular Data. Figure in PostScript format.

Note: all EES Journalism students are self supporting. There was 1 such student in 1996, the year the program started, 3 in 1997, 4 in 1998 and 4 in 2000.