Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program

The Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) provides financial assistance in the form of a student loan to a limited number of individuals pursuing doctoral degrees at California State University (CSU). 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.

Program Implementation

Students may borrow up to $10,000 per year (up to a total of $30,000 within a five-year period) through the Doctoral Incentive Program. 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 20 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 do not need to be accepted into a doctoral program at the time of applying.

Information and Application

More information about the program is available in the Academic Programs and Graduate Studies (APGS) Office in Warren Hall, Room 877. Applicants must turn in all materials to the APGS Office by the application deadline. For more information and application deadline, visit or contact the office at (510) 885-3286 or e-mail gradprograms@csueastbay.edu.