Environmental Resources and Policy

Overview

The Environmental Resources and Policy (ERP) PhD program focuses on advanced interdisciplinary training and research on physical, biological, and social processes responsible for natural resource and environmental problems facing contemporary society. The cooperative ERP PhD program features the following concentrations:

Agricultural and Rural Land Resources
Earth and Environmental Processes
Ecology
Environmental Modeling
Environmental Policy and Administration
Geographic Information System
Water Resources

The conditions of this cooperative PhD program are outlined on the Memorandum of Understanding.

Tuition and Financial Aid

Tuition and Fees

Co-op students can register for classes on either campus. They will pay tuition and fees to the campus at which they registered for the class. In a single semester, students may be registered on both campuses and be paying some tuition and fees on each campus. The exception is if the students are only taking classes at SIUE, in which case they will be registered for one credit of ERP 601 with no charge at SIUC.

Assistantships

In order for a student to hold a graduate assistantship at SIUE, the student must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher and enroll in at least six credit hours per academic term. The student may have enrollment at SIUE only, or have enrollment at both SIUE and SIUC, as long as the cumulative hours enrolled are at least six. Co-op PhD students who receive a graduate assistantship (GA) will receive a tuition waiver and stipend. For more information, visit the SIUE Graduate School website.

Financial Aid

SIUC is the degree-granting institution, so financial aid will be based out of SIUC.

If the student is enrolled in classes at SIUE only, the student is not eligible for financial aid.
If the student is enrolled in classes at SIUC only, the student is eligible for financial aid through SIUC.
If the student is enrolled in classes at both SIUE and SIUC, and the student has enough hours at SIUC to receive maximum aid, then SIUC will offer all financial aid.
If the student is enrolled in classes at both SIUE and SIUC, and does not have enough hours at SIUC to get maximum financial aid, SIUC will do a consortium agreement with SIUE and offer all financial aid.

Co-op PhD students are not eligible for Federal Work Study.