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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 - fellowships and grants-in-aid, 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 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.* Please scroll through and
note that first year JMP students pay Graduate Academic fees plus $61
per year for medical disability insurance; second and third year JMP
fees are shown under UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program.
The UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program is a 12-month
program in the first year. Our students enroll full-time in the
eight-week
Summer Session and take Anatomy with a Radiology correlate, as well
as Master's Research Seminar. An additional amount for living expenses
and summer session fees should therefore be added to the first-year
estimated student budget. For example, for 2009 the summer financial
aid budget was $8,710.*
As indicated on the Registrar’s fee schedule above, students in the JMP
are assessed a Professional Degree Fee (an annual amount charged equally
to all UC medical students) in the second and third year in the Berkeley
Program and in the remaining two years at UCSF.*
Technology Grant: All JMP students are required to own
a networkable computer. After actual matriculation into the JMP, a
departmental grant of up to $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. An application process
takes place each fall and spring. Expenses typically approved include
travel costs necessary to carry out thesis research 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 entering JMP students qualify to be
nominated by the JMP for Graduate Opportunity Program Master's Degree
grants funded by the campus.
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].
Most 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 in return 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.
Applicants invited to interview with the JMP need to submit the
FREE APPLICATION FOR FEDERAL STUDENT AID (FAFSA) designating UC
Berkeley by March 2 each year. UCB's institution code is 001312. |