Facebook Pays School Costs For 5 PhD Candidates

As part of their Facebook Fellowship Program, announced earlier this year, Facebook has just published the five PhD students whom they’ll be funding. According to the official announcement on the Facebook Blog today, each student selected will not only received paid tuition and fees but a few extras: a $30,000 stipend, paid conference travel and a few other unnamed “benefits.”

The five winners were selected for their “diversity of research fields” related to topics on the social web and Facebook.