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GSHIP is designed to ensure that our graduate students have health, vision, and dental coverage to support their health and wellness throughout their course of study. The program ensures students have direct support in either obtaining affordable healthcare coverage, if they are not yet covered, or verifying their existing health insurance. 

GSHIP is an opt-out program that offers health insurance through Aetna Student Health, the SDSU negotiated plan. The program requires that domestic (non-international) students at SDSU and SDSU Imperial Valley who are in a graduate or credential program have health insurance.

Graduate students enrolled in a degree program through SDSU Global Campus or those enrolled in a fully online program, are not subject to the requirement and not eligible to enroll in the SDSU negotiated health insurance plan. 

Dependents are not eligible.

Please contact San Diego State's GSHIP office here to enroll if you had a Qualifying Life Event.

Yes. Under new California law (AB594), students enrolled in GSHIP may terminate their coverage if they graduate, withdraw from the university, take a leave of absence or otherwise become ineligible for coverage due to no longer being enrolled. Outside of these circumstances, enrollment in the SDSU negotiated plan is annual and cannot be cancelled.

To request termination, students must notify [email protected] at least 30 days before their desired termination date. SDSU will submit the termination request to the insurance carrier during the same calendar month the request is received, when possible. Otherwise, coverage will end no later than the last day of the calendar month in which the 30 day notice period ends.

Students are responsible for premiums only through the date coverage ends, which, unless cancelled sooner as set forth above, is Aug. 15, 2027. Any premium paid for coverage after the termination date will be refunded on a prorated basis.