Financial
Information:
The following section is designed to help you estimate the cost of a year of
graduate school at Berkeley and to acquaint you with the resources and options available
to help you finance your education.
Numerous programs - from fellowships and grants-in-aid, to loans, research assistantships (GSRs), teaching
appointments (GSIs), and subsidized housing and child care - provide ways you can cut the cost of
graduate/medical school. Some of the programs are merit-based and administered
through the
Graduate Division Fellowship Office;others are need-based and administered through
the
Graduate Financial Aid Office.
Costs:*
Each spring, the Financial Aid Office for the Berkeley campus computes
budgets [click
on "Cost of Attendance" on the right-hand side of that page] to help you estimate the
average cost for a Joint Medical Program graduate/medical student during the 9-month
academic year. Budgets are revised each year to account
.for changes in the cost of living, fees, and tuition. Fees and nonresident tuition fees
are set by the Regents and are subject to change without notice.
Actual JMP fees are shown on the
Office of the Registrar's fee schedule [scroll all the way through
to get full picture of JMP fees].
The UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program is a 12 - month program in the first year.
Our students enroll full-time in the second
Summer Session, which lasts
eight weeks, and take Anatomy with a Radiology correlate, as well as
Master's Thesis Seminar. An additional
amount for
living expenses and summer session fees should therefore be added to the first-year estimated
student budget.
Students in the JMP are also assessed a Professional Degree Fee (charged
to all UC medical students) in the second and third year in the Berkeley Program and in the remaining
two years at UCSF.
All JMP students are required to own a networkable home computer
or laptop.
After actual matriculation into the JMP, a departmental grant of
$2000.00 is available to cover a substantial portion of
this cost for those students who must purchase a computer.
Research Grant: Up to a total of $2000 per student, available
over the course of your time here. A simple application process takes place
each fall and spring. Expenses typically approved include travel costs
necessary to carry out the work, costs of developing and producing research
materials and of collecting data, and costs associated with analyzing data.
As a matter of policy, some sorts of expenses are not covered, e.g. hiring
research assistants. Others are covered contingently, e.g. after a requisite
amount of data has been collected.
*All fees are subject to change.
Legal Residency and Fees:
Every entering student is classified as a resident or nonresident of
California for tuition purposes. Detailed information on establishing
residency and documenting financial independence is available from the
Office of the Registrar's
Legal Residency Unit.
Financial Planning Guide for Graduate Students:
A variety of merit-based awards is available for graduate students. JMP
students primarily apply for a Block Grant Fellowship (administered by the
JMP), or a Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) (administered by the Graduate
Division). Some JMP students qualify for Graduate
Opportunity Program Master's Degree grants.
Each year, some JMP students choose to serve as
Graduate Student Instructors in undergraduate courses or as Graduate Student Researchers.
Students apply for these opportunities as they are available. GSI-ships
and GSR-ships provide remissions of certain fees and stipends [income].
The majority of JMP students fund their medical education through a
variety of need-based loans: Federal Direct Loan**, Unsubsidized Federal
Direct Loan**, Work Study, Perkins Loan and the Graduate Opportunity
Program. Others seek loan-forgiveness opportunities from federal
and state governments and agencies for agreeing to practice in certain
under-served areas.
The AAMC [American Association of Medical Colleges] has
a useful site called
Financing Your Medical Education, well worth exploring.
**All federal regulations subject to change.
The deadline to submit the
FREE APPLICATION FOR FEDERAL STUDENT AID (FAFSA) designating UCB Graduate/Optometry
unit is March 2 . UCB's institution code is 001312.
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