A.S. Affordable Textbook Program

CLOSED ON FRIDAY, 9/20/2024 AT 9:45 AM PST 

Students who receive financial aid grant(s) and Scholarship Awards: Military, EOP, and Middle Class Scholarship are eligible for a $200 voucher to buy or rent a textbook, purchase school supplies, and technology that are available at the SJSU Spartan Bookstore in person. This program is NOT offered for Summer and Winter Sessions. 

This program is first come, first served. We will stop accepting applications once we have reached the budget. You must submit your completed application and required document through your SJSU email to as-gsc-textbook-group@sjsu.edu.

ATTENTION: Any applications submitted to the prior date and time listed above will be denied. Our generated email will be inactive once budget is reached, and your application will not be received. Students are allowed one voucher a semester. Do NOT reapply for multiple vouchers if you have been released a book voucher for the reoccurring semester already.

The grant/scholarship must be displayed on the award summary for the occurring semester that the application is being requested for. Incomplete applications will not be qualified for the book voucher. All documents submitted in the application must be in PDF FORM.

Please read the description for all requirements in the application. We encourage you to look at our example for reference.

A.S. Affordable Textbook Program EXAMPLE [pdf] [pdf]

A.S. Affordable Textbook Program APPLICATION [pdf] [pdf]

Incoming Transfer Students

If you are applying for the Affordable Textbook Program as a transfer student and have not yet received your SJSU Tower ID, please submit a scanned copy of your Government ID in lieu of your SJSU Tower ID.

Voucher Disbursement

If you submitted an application on Friday, September 20th, and qualified, you will receive your book voucher via SJSU email on Wednesday, September 25th and be able to redeem it that same day after 2:00pm PST. There is an expiration date for the voucher. 

How to Redeem Book Voucher

SJSU Spartan Bookstore in person (checkout): Please have your SJSU Tower ID Card or Government ID and the Book Voucher EMAIL confirmation displaying the voucher number, at the SJSU Bookstore in person checkout. 

Redeemable only for available items at the SJSU Spartan Bookstore in person checkout. There will be no special orders available for customers who are trying to redeem the voucher. 

NOTE: If your purchase exceeds the $200 value of the book voucher, you must include an additional payment method. The book voucher is valid to purchase/rent textbooks, school supplies, and technology on the SJSU Spartan Bookstore in person checkout only. It will EXPIRE 21 days after the original issue date.