Scholarships and Fellowships

Please contact Mr. Paul Paoletti at the Tufts Department of Payroll for assistance at 617-628-5000, ext. 72593. You can also refer to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Publications 520 [http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p520.pdf] for more details.

Special tax rules apply to scholarship and fellowship grants. The rules for determining the taxable part of a scholarship or fellowship apply to both resident and non-resident aliens. They are separate from and in addition to any rules pertaining to exclusions from income for foreign scholarships or exclusions under a tax treaty.