Each year, the department receives over 150 applications for graduate study. We have typically made offers of admission to roughly 8-10 students per year, all of whom are guaranteed six years of stipend and tuition remission. Our annual cohort size of entering students is large enough to have lively, stimulating discussions in seminar courses but small enough to maximize the financial support we can provide and to promote intensive faculty mentorship. In addition, the department, interdisciplinary units at Brown, and the graduate school all have a wide range of supplemental funds available to graduate students, on either a competitive or need-based basis, for needs directly related to the program of study such as summer research funding, conference travel, and language learning.