The Office of Graduate Studies along with San Jose State University and the California State University system are proud to sponsor several programs, awards and competitions designed to cultivate and encourage student research and scholarship for current graduate students. Please browse through our programs to find out their application requirements and deadlines. Remember your current department or college may also offer their own scholarships and programs. Contact them for a list of programs they may offer.
| Graduate Equity Fellowship | |
| CSU Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program | Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship |
| Bertha Kalm Scholarship | Outstanding Thesis Award |
| Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholarship |
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CSU Student Research Competition
The CSU Student Research Competition showcases excellent research conducted by CSU graduate and undergraduate students in the full range of academic programs offered by the CSU. Student participants make oral presentation before juries of professional experts from major corporations, foundations, public agencies, and colleges and universities in California.
Cash prizes are awarded for the best presentations in each category of the competition. In addition, following the competition, selected research summaries are published in Conference Proceedings. Please note that students are encouraged to present and discuss creative projects in the Creative Arts and Design category.
Each CSU campus forwards a maximum of ten presentations and is free to promote the competition, establish a campus selection process, and screen the final submissions in whatever manner the campus coordinator deems best. Local competitions are held in early spring and local winners nominated to represent the campus in the system wide competition present in early May.
Guidelines
The SJSU Research Forum precedes the CSU Student Research Competition and is usually held in March with the CSU competition being held in early May. At the SJSU Research Forum, students will be available to discuss their research at a poster session; family and friends are encouraged to attend.
SJSU Research Forum
Each college may send forward a total of FOUR students (undergraduate or graduate) who have done outstanding research or creative activity. The divisions of competition have been arranged to parallel the system wide procedures and the judges for the selection will be faculty experts within the disciplines. The winners from this competition will then move forward to the CSU Student Research Competition.
How To Apply
Interested students are encouraged to contact your faculty advisor or department to receive instructions on how to submit your research to the SJSU Research Forum held in early March.
For a list of past winners or details on the upcoming SJSU or CSU Research Competition (if available already) visit our CSU Student Research Competition page.
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Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program
The CSU Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) is designed to increase the pool of faculty candidate
with the qualifications, motivation, and skill to teach
the diverse student body in the CSU. The initial emphasis
was to encourage doctoral study in fields in which women
and minorities were most underrepresented. Today applicants
in all fields where CSU campuses employ faculty are eligible
for admission to this program regardless of gender or
ethnicity.
The CDIP will lend participants who are full-time doctoral
students up to $10,000 annually to a limit of $30,000
over a five-year period. The recipients may enroll in
any approved doctoral program, at an accredited university
in the United States or abroad. In addition to the loan
provision, a full-time, tenure-track member of the CSU
faculty formally sponsors participants.
After completion of the doctoral degree, a CDIP participant
is extended a 12-month grace period before loan repayments
begin. If the participant obtains a full-time instructional
faculty position in the CSU, the loan principal and interest
are "forgiven" at the rate of 20% for each year
of service. After five years of full time faculty service,
the entire loan amount can be forgiven. A system wide selection committee, composed of CSU faculty,
campus administrators and Chancellor’s Office administrators
consider the campus nominees.
How To Apply
Applications are available in late November with an application deadline in February. Selection announcements are made in early May. For additional
information on how to apply please visit the CSU's Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program page.
The website has several sections that contain information for:
1. Potential
Applicants
2.
Current Participants
3. Sponsors
4. Coordinators
Interested Students can request an application through the website and current participants can contact the program with questions or updates. In addition, there is a Frequently Asked Questions section and a link to the most recent CDIP annual report.
For a list of recent SJSU winners visit our CSU Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program Winners page.
The Office of Graduate Studies & Research is pleased to offer the Bertha Kalm Scholarship for Graduate Students at SJSU in the amount of $500.00. Awards are restricted to first year candidates for the master's degree at SJSU. Graduate Coordinators can forward the names and supporting information of an applicant. Applicants will be evaluated by the Graduate Studies & Research Committee on the quality of scholarship that has established eligibility for admission to the graduate program, the personal statement regarding goals to be achieved by the master's degree, and faculty assessment of potential success. Additional consideration will be given to applicants with financial needs.
How To Apply
Only one application may be submitted from each program. These materials are due in the Graduate Studies Office no later than April 15th of each year; the award will be announced on or before May 15th.
Please contact your graduate advisor or department before April 15th as your graduate advisor must nominate you for this scholarship.
For a list of past winners visit our Bertha Kalm Scholarship page.
Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholarship
The Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar program is designed to increase the pool of potential faculty by supporting the doctoral aspirations of CSU students who have experienced economic and educational disadvantages. The program emphasizes increasing the number of CSU students who enter graduate programs at one of the University of California institutions.
Selected applicants work closely with a CSU faculty sponsor to develop an overall plan which leads ultimately to enrollment in a doctoral program. In addition, the program provides travel funds, summer internship opportunities and funds for other related activities, such as student membership in professional organizations, graduate school application and test fees, and minor research material costs.
Eligibility for the program requires candidates to be upper division or master’s degree students who are enrolled at a CSU institution in the Spring semester and who will be enrolled at a CSU campus for a least one term of the following academic year. Applicants are selected on the basis of potential for success in completing a doctoral program, probable effectiveness of the student/faculty plan, and level of economic and education disadvantage.
How To Apply
The call for applications occurs in February and selected scholars may expect notification by early summer.
For a list of past winners or a current application (if available already) visit our Pre-Doctoral Scholarship page.
Graduate Equity Fellowship
The purpose of the Graduate Equity Fellowship is to encourage
and assist students in their pursuit and completion of
Master’s degrees and careers in post-secondary education.
This fellowship is only available to California resident students admitted and enrolled in a Master's degree program. Credential
only candidates are not eligible.
Under the Graduate Fellowship Program, awards of up to
$3,000 may be made to graduate students enrolled at SJSU
for the Fall/Spring academic year in which the call for
applications is announced. Students must be enrolled in
both academic terms and complete a minimum of six units
in each. These twelve units must appear on the Master’s
candidacy form for award of degree. Course work used to
complete program pre-requisites will not fulfill this
enrollment requirement.
Eligibility is based on possession of a first university
degree equivalent to the U.S. baccalaureate by the first
day of the Fall semester, admission into a graduate Master’s
program at SJSU, residency in the state of California,
demonstration of a GPA of at least 2.7 in all undergraduate
work, demonstration/maintenance of a GPA of at least 3.0
in all graduate course work, demonstration of a minimum
financial need of $1,000 and at least twelve semester
units of graduate work to be completed.
How To Apply
The call for applications is announced in April. Applications are due in early June and selections are made in September.
For a list of recent winners or a current application (if available already) visit our Graduate Equity Fellowship page.
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans
The Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports thirty individuals a year for up to two years of graduate study in any subject anywhere in the United States.
Students already in graduate study are eligible, though not past their second year. The Fellowship provides a $20,000 maintenance grant and payment of half of a student's tuition up to 2 years wherever the Fellow attends. Candidates must be either holders of Green Cards naturalized citizens, or children of two naturalized citizen parents.
How To Apply
The deadline is November 1st of each year and the announcement of the recipients will be in March. Please visit the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship page for an application.
Two Outstanding Thesis Awards of $500 are presented personally by the President of SJSU at Commencement each May. SJSU allows each College to select only one thesis to be sent forward for consideration. Students with degrees awarded in May of the year of award are eligible, as well as those with degree dates from the immediately past May, August, and December. Prior May degree recipients are included so that high quality work completed too late for the past year's selection process can participate. Only Plan A Theses qualify for this award.
How To Apply
Interested students are encouraged to contact your faculty advisor or department early in the Spring as your thesis must be nominated by your College.
For a list of past winners visit our Outstanding Thesis page
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