Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive (Forgivable Loan) Program

Deadline: Applications are currently not available

Through the Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP), the California State University (CSU) provides financial assistance in the form of a student loan to a limited number of individuals pursuing doctoral degrees. The program seeks to provide loans to doctoral students who are interested in applying and competing for CSU instructional faculty positions after completion of the doctoral degree. The program is designed to increase the diversity of persons qualified to fill instructional faculty position in the CSU.

Through the Doctoral Incentive Program, students may borrow up to $10,000 per year (up to a total of $30,000 within a five-year period). Students who complete their doctoral studies and teach in the CSU system as full-time faculty members will have their loans forgiven at the rate of twenty percent for each year of teaching; those who do not obtain a CSU faculty position are required to repay the loan at an interest rate comparable to other graduate student loans. Employment at a CSU campus, however, is not guaranteed. Applicants are not required to be accepted into a doctoral program at the time of applying.

Information and Application

For more information about the program, please download the information sheet and Permission to Publish form, which are also available in the hall outside of Warren Hall, Room 877 on the Hayward Campus.

Office hours for faculty and students with questions about the program are available.

Please note: California State University, East Bay applicants must turn in all materials to the APGS Student Services office in Warren Hall 877.