San Diego State University (SDSU) - University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Joint Doctoral Program (JDP)

The San Diego State University (SDSU) – University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Joint Doctoral Program (JDP) is a collaborative doctoral initiative between two public research universities in San Diego, California. Students in the JDP pursue Ph.D. degrees that are co-awarded by both SDSU and UCSD, combining the resources, faculty expertise, and research infrastructure of both campuses. The program spans multiple disciplines, including clinical psychology, public health, and engineering sciences, among others. Participants typically work with faculty advisers from both institutions and benefit from access to laboratories, libraries, and research centers across the two universities. The JDP is designed to provide students with the broader teaching and research opportunities of a large public university system while maintaining the specialized training of a doctoral program. It is not an independent university but rather a formal partnership through which admitted doctoral students enroll at both institutions simultaneously and receive a single diploma bearing the names of both SDSU and UCSD.