The department offers several nonservice fellowships. These include the Graham Kenan Fellowship and the Horace Williams, Mary Taylor Williams, and Bertha Colton Williams Fellowships. The department has available teaching assistantships with stipends of over $15,000. In addition, The Graduate School offers a variety of fellowships and assistantships with stipends up to $22,000 that are open to students in philosophy. Please refer to the "funding" section of the department's Web site for up-to-date information about graduate support.

The department maintains close relations with the Department of Philosophy at Duke University. Graduate students in either institution may register for credit in graduate courses or seminars at the other institution and may include faculty members from either on their dissertation committees. Library facilities are available to students at each institution.