The University of Colorado Boulder, based in Boulder, CO offers a fully funded PhD in Philosophy. The PhD program in Philosophy consists of approximately 2.5 years of coursework and 2.5 years of work on a dissertation. The Department provides 5 years of guaranteed funding for all students in the Ph.D. program. Typically, Ph.D. students serve as Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Research Assistants (RAs). For the first three years, TAs earned an annual stipend of about $23,123, and in the fourth year $26,725. All students on a TA or GPTI appointment also receive full tuition waivers and partial payment of health insurance.