Financing your education is always challenging. The Department of Education is committed to providing you with available options and opportunities to assist you in accomplishing your educational goals.  Below you will find important information that will help you develop your financial plan.

Master's and Credential Program options:

APLE (Assumption Program of Loans for Education)

• The APLE Commission may assume up to $11,000 in outstanding educational loans in return for four consecutive years of full time eligible teaching service in a California K-12 public school.

California Retired Teachers Association, Laura Settle Scholarship

• The Laura E. Settle Foundation awards $2,000 to a credential student that possesses an average to high scholastic standing, a record of exemplary character, and financial need.

Owen Thomas Memorial Scholarship for UCI English Undergraduates

• The Owen Thomas Scholarship is awarded to honor outstanding undergraduate scholarship in English and a commitment to secondary English teaching.

UCI Masters Golf Tournament Award

• The UCI Masters Golf Tournament Scholarship is awarded to honor students who are committed to teaching in high-need schools and are experiencing financial challenges on their journey to becoming a teacher.

UCI Noyce Stem Teaching Scholarship

• The goal of this scholarship program is to provide financial incentives and academic support for aspiring mathematics and science teachers who will teach in high-need (academically & culturally diverse) schools.

Doctoral Program options:

National Scholarship Opportunities:

Bright Futures Scholarship

• Eligibility Criteria: (Must meet one of these criterias)
• Entering second year of an associate’s degree program
• Entering junior year in a bachelor’s degree program
• Enrolled in a master’s program interested in a teaching career.
• Enrolled in master’s program pursing a career as a director of a child care program.

Knowles Science Teaching Foundations (KSTF) Teaching Fellowships

• Eligibility Criteria: (Must meet all listed criteria)
• Either have earned or in the process of earning a degree in the sciences (example: physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, etc), mathematics, or engineering.
• Planning to teach science or mathematics in a U.S. high school
• Enrolled in or planning to enroll in an approved teaching credential program

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Scholarship

• Eligibility Criteria: (Must meet all listed criteria)
• U.S. citizenship
• Full-time junior academic status in an accredited college or university within the U.S.
• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 (based on 4.0 scale) in all undergraduate courses and major field of study.
• Majoring in a discipline area related to oceanic and atmospheric science, research, technology, and education and supportive of the purposes of NOAA’s programs and mission (e.g., biological, life, and agricultural sciences, mathematics, engineering, social & behavioral sciences, and teacher education.)

Edward Vance Cook Scholarship

• Eligibility Criteria: (Must meet all listed criteria)
• Currently enrolled in teacher credential program in California
• Minimum cumulative 3.0 GPA
• Demonstrate a commitment to children and the desire to provide quality instruction to children.
• Meet with Mrs. Marie Cook, wife of Edward Vance Cook at the time of disbursement.

California Mathematics Council

• Eligibility Criteria: (Must meet one of these criteria)
• Students enrolled in an elementary education credential program and interested in mathematics.
• Students enrolled in a secondary education credential program.
• Professional in-service grants credential members of CA-Mathematics Council-SS
• Professional scholarships for the retaining of current teachers who are members of the CA Mathematics Council-SS.

James Madison Scholarship

• Eligibility Criteria: (Must meet one of these criteria)
• Outstanding college seniors and graduates without teaching experience who intend to become secondary school teachers of American history, government, or social studies and must be expected to pursue a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) concentrating on American Constitutional history (e.g., Social Science).
• Teachers who wish to pursue a graduate degree on a part-time basis through summer or evening courses.

Grants & Loans:

• The campus Financial Aid Office can assist you with additional information about Cal Grant and federal and university loan programs.
• Other important information about financing your graduate education can be found in the Office of Graduate Studies

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