Students admitted to the Joint Doctoral Program Ecology (JDPE) are offered support from Graduate Research Assistantships (GAs) or Teaching Assistantships (TAs) and also receive a comprehensive benefits package. Students typically will receive support for 5 years, as long as they are making satisfactory progress and are satisfactorily discharging other responsibilities related to the stipend. The normal teaching load for students receiving these stipends is 6 hours (e.g. Two 3-hour laboratory sections) per week plus grading and preparation of assignments. Typically, students without other support TA two lab sections in their first year, none at UC Davis, and one lab section per semester in years 3-5. The current stipends vary from $31,200 to $32,700 depending on progress through the program. Additional summer RAs are often provided by individual advisors to supplement this stipend.
Fellowships, scholarships, and other forms of financial assistance from university, state, federal, and private sources are also available.
References
SDSU Financial Aid Scholarships Office
SDSU College of Graduate Studies