The USPHS Commissioned Corps Junior (JR) and Senior (SR) Commissioned Officer Student Training Extern Program’s (COSTEP) annual application period is now open. COSTEPs are highly competitive, active-duty uniformed service programs for full-time students pursuing their qualifying degrees. They are limited to 250 complete applications per program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
JRCOSTEP<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n JRCOSTEPs serve on active duty for 31-120 days during school breaks. Within three months after the date of completion of the JRCOSTEP assignment, applicants must be scheduled to return to college or university as a full-time student; or enter a postgraduate degree program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Application acceptance period is <\/a>July 1\u2013 September 15, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n JRCOSTEP applications will be accepted now for active-duty assignments the following year. Please refer applicants to the following resources before they apply: JRCOSTEP policy<\/a>, CCMIS JRCOSTEP FAQs<\/a>, and JRCOSTEP FAQs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SRCOSTEP<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n SRCOSTEPs serve on active duty while attending their final year of academic study and incur a service obligation equal to twice the time sponsored upon graduation. Please refer applicants to the following resources before they apply: SRCOSTEP policy<\/a>, CCMIS SRCOSTEP FAQs<\/a>, and SRCOSTEP FAQs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SRCOSTEP applications will be accepted for students who are graduating in 2027 or early 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Application acceptance period is July 1\u2013 September 15, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As of June 1, 2022, SRCOSTEP participants are also subject to the Commissioned Service Obligation<\/a> upon graduation. Please review the CSO CCMIS FAQs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any additional questions regarding the current COSTEP open application period can be submitted to PHSCostep@hhs.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The USPHS Commissioned Corps Junior (JR) and Senior (SR) Commissioned Officer Student Training Extern Program’s (COSTEP) annual application period is now open. COSTEPs are highly competitive, active-duty uniformed service programs for full-time students pursuing their qualifying degrees. They are limited to 250 complete applications per program. JRCOSTEP JRCOSTEPs serve on active duty for 31-120 days… Read More »COSTEP Application Period is Open Through September 30<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nesbitt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24907,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906\/revisions\/24907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}