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GUIDED TOUR AND PRESENTATION

Tours are designed for prospective, current UC San Diego Students, Academic Counselors, UC San Diego faculty/ staff/administrators, and general guests. This is a completely outdoor walking tour led by current UC San Diego Campus Ambassadors along with a presentation by a Admissions Officer. * GROUP Tours for 11 or more students

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SELF-GUIDED TOUR

If you are unable to attend a guided tour you are welcome to explore the UC San Diego campus on your own using the self-guided tour map. Our campus is open to the public throughout the year with each self-guided tour route in the map below is about 45 minutes to 1 hour long. Please feel free to stop by the Triton Center for questions if needed.

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Explore Geisel Library

Snap a selfie in front of UC San Diego’s iconic Geisel Library, recently named one of the most beautiful libraries in the world and is among the nation’s top 25 public academic libraries.

EAT AT A DINING HALL

Treat yourself to a meal at one of our full-service eateries. Selections around campus include vegetarian, kosher and halal-friendly dining halls, as well as food to grab on the go.

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CHECK OUT THE BOOKSTORE

Browse bestsellers and outfit yourself like a true Triton at the UC San Diego Bookstore. There is also a full food court in the attached Price Center if you get hungry or just want to grab some coffee.

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SOAK IN SOME CAMPUS ART

Zigzag across campus in search of our carefully curated series of one-of-a-kind, site-specific installations from bold artists who proudly disrupt the status quo.

Visiting & Tours

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UC San Diego’s campus offers more than just salt air, sunshine and sweeping ocean views. From state-of the-art labs and research facilities to innovative spaces for exploring art and fostering creativity, it’s a destination for bold thinkers and curious minds. Come visit us and discover what it means to be a Triton. Your next big adventure could start here.

Explore our beautiful seaside campus virtually, in person or both—and see what makes UC San Diego the perfect environment to make a big impact. Discover our world-renowned public art collection, marvel at unique architecture or walk along Scripps Pier, where researchers are working to solve the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Tours are very limited at this time.

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GETTING TO CAMPUS

Arriving by car? Our La Jolla campus is conveniently located just off I-5. Visitors can purchase hourly parking at parking pay stations or on their mobile device.

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PUBLIC TRANSIT

Whether you’re arriving by bus, the COASTER train or the Blue Line Trolley that connects our La Jolla campus to the local San Diego community and beyond, we’ve got you covered.

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GETTING AROUND CAMPUS

Ready to explore? You might prefer the path less traveled, but if you’re short on time, our campus maps, waypoint indicators and shuttles can help ensure you hit all the campus highlights.

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As a destination for entertainment, inspiration abounds at UC San Diego. From lectures and workshops to concerts and cultural heritage events, we offer ample opportunities to expand your mind beyond the pages of a textbook.

CAMPUS EVENTS

With new and unique offerings every day, there’s something for everyone on our campus calendar.

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Epstein Family Amphitheater

Our state-of-the-art outdoor entertainment venue is designed with entertainers of the highest caliber in mind.

Amphitheater Events Calendar

We’ve curated a lineup of performing and media arts events to engage, energize and transform the diverse cultural life of the university and San Diego.

ArtPower Events Calendar

Student Events

Embrace your curiosity and form new connections with a full lineup of student-focused events designed to enrich your UC San Diego experience.

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Join the sea of blue and gold and cheer our Division I scholar-athletes to victory. There’s never been a more exciting time to be a Triton.

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ARTS AT UC SAN DIEGO

Explore UC San Diego’s wealth of arts events, installations, screenings and more.

Life at UC San Diego

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From late-night eats and coffee shops to a variety of international cuisines, our campus offers dining options to suit every palate.

University Centers Dining

Boba drinks, Indian street food and Thai fusion dishes are just a few of the many offerings within our University Centers, which are home to both locally owned restaurants and well-known national chains.

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With an exclusively vegan eatery and lounge, the largest halal-certified residential dining facility in the nation and certified kosher menu options—all with a focus on sustainability—eating on campus has never been easier.

All the Essentials

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Stock up on everything from textbooks and computers to the latest Triton gear at the UC San Diego Bookstore, located in Price Center East. Visit the bookstore’s Sunshine Market for convenient grab-n-go products including snacks, groceries and home and dorm essentials.

University Centers Shops & Services

A full-service salon, a bike & skate shop, an Amazon pickup location and more: you’ll find it all here on campus.

Our Target campus store is unique and provides a curated assortment of products and services tailored to the specific needs and wants of students, staff and faculty. It even includes a CVS Pharmacy.

Work Hard, Play Hard

Take a yoga class, navigate our challenge course, learn how to surf or face off against your fellow Tritons in a game of basketball. Between our countless recreational offerings and the year-round Southern California sunshine, it’s easy to stay active both on and off campus.

La Jolla Playhouse

Our campus is home to the Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse, a professional, not-for-profit venue that’s gained nationwide recognition as “the place to see what’s next on the American theatre landscape.”

Craft Center

Our reimagined 11,000 square-foot Craft Center offers classes and workshops ranging from ceramics and woodworking to culinary arts and surfboard shaping.

With study spaces, labs and access to the largest university research library system in the world, the Library is the perfect place to follow your curiosity and think outside the box.

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Find out about UC San Diego's housing different living areas and what they offer for on-campus housing in 2024-2025. Area overviews and typical layouts are being reviewed and are subject to change.

Revelle College Housing

General information.

Space availability for Room Selection will be in the Charles David Keeling Apartments (Revelle Apartments).  Units consist of 6 person apartments with 2 double rooms and 2 single rooms.  Apartments have a kitchen, living room and shared bathroom.  64 Degrees and Roger's Market are all adjacent to the housing units.   Additional space will be allocated in the Revelle Residence Halls and Eighth College Apartments.

Contact Information

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Muir College Housing

Space availability will be in the Tuolumne and Tamarack Apartments, and potentially at other locations on campus (TBD).

Tuolumne Apartments

Each apartment houses 4 or 5 students in one double and two or three singles. If there is space available at your Room Selection time, students will choose an apartment and select a specific room in that particular apartment in which to live.

Tamarack Apartments

Each apartment houses 6 students in two doubles and two singles. If there is space available at your Room Selection time, students will choose an apartment and select a specific room in that particular apartment in which to live.

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Thurgood Marshall College Housing

Thurgood Marshall College will offer apartments in the UPPERS which are a cluster of six houses (G-M) surrounding a cul-de-sac. All apartments are fully furnished with kitchenettes, living room, and Wi-Fi connections. The UPPERS have easy access to a mailroom and laundry facilities.  Triple, double and single room options are available.

Thurgood Marshall College will also offer space elsewhere on campus.  Check back in early March for updated information.

• Thurgood Marshall Residence Life Office 858.534.4340 [email protected] Thurgood Marshall Residence Life website

Warren College Housing

Information session.

Check back in March for updated information!

Earl Warren College Apartments consist of four students in two bedroom apartments. Bates and Brown are now part of the Warren College Community and offer 4 single rooms in each apartment.  All units are furnished and include Wi-Fi, kitchen/living room and shared bathroom. The Warren Housing Complex features Canyon Vista Restaurant, Earl’s Place (a convenience store/coffee house), the Warren Student Activity Center (SAC), a community garden, basketball and volleyball courts. Two Olympic size pools are located close to the apartment complex.

• Warren Residence Life Office 858.534.4581 [email protected] Warren Residence Life website

Eleanor Roosevelt College (ERC) Housing

The ERC neighborhood features three living areas: International House (I-House), ERC apartments, and Raza Living-Learning Community (Raza LLC).  

All three living areas feature a variety of different single-story floor plans, (with limited townhouse-style units in I-House and the Raza LLC); each fully furnished with a kitchen, living/dining room, and single bedrooms. There are no full double bedroom options available in the ERC Apartments, however a limited number of mini-double bedrooms are available in Earth North, Earth South, Mesa Verde, and Geneva. Balconies and terraces are featured only on the top three floors of Earth Hall, North and South.  All three living areas in the ERC neighborhood have access to laundry facilities, study and meeting rooms, mailroom, computer labs, classrooms, and dining facilities.

ERC students participating in Room Selection will also be able to select from space at Seventh College (next door to ERC!).  Units will include triple, double and limited single bedroom options.

• ERC Residence Life Office 858.534.2261 [email protected] ERC Residence Life website

Sixth College Housing @ North Torrey Pines Living Learning Neighborhood

Room Selection will be in the apartments at Sixth College, located on Torrey Pines between Muir College and Thurgood Marshall College. Students may have a variety of multiple person apartment styles, including single, double and triple bedrooms to choose from. Sixth College will also house the Multicultural Living & Learning Community (MCLLC) and African Black Diaspora Living & Learning Community (ABDLLC). 

• Sixth Residence Life Office 858.822.5268 [email protected] Sixth Residence Life website

Seventh College Housing

Seventh College offers apartment-style living with kitchens, living rooms and shared bathrooms.  Unit size with vary and offer triple, double and limited single bedroom options. Laundry facilities are available and Seventh boasts a great market for those wanting to grab a quick bite or coffee!

• Seventh Residence Life Office 858.246.4577 [email protected] Seventh Residence Life website

The Village at Pepper Canyon East & The Rita Housing

Pepper Canyon Apartments will offer various apartment style units with single and double spaces holding 3-6 students. Matthew Apartments will offer triple, double, and single spaces in 6 person apartment units.

The Rita will offer apartments units with mostly mini-double bedrooms and limited single spaces to hold 2-4 students.

All students living in these communities will not have a required dining plan. Students who select into these communities or are assigned to a space will have the option to select a no dining plan or select from one of our other 2024-25 dining plans. 

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Eighth College

Eighth College is our newest community that opened in Fall 2023.  It will have a mixture of residence hall and apartment style units.  Eighth College is located next to Revelle College on the southwest side of campus.  A mixture of  double, triple and some single rooms  will be available. More to come as the community comes alive this Fall!

• Eighth CollegeResidence Life Office 858.822.6556 [email protected] Eighth College Residence Life website

Pepper Canyon West

The new Pepper Canyon West neighborhood includes two towers with large courtyards, a game room, laundry facilities, a fitness center, and easy access to public transportation. Priority will be given to transfer students.  Pepper Canyon West has a 12-month contract.   Dining plan is not required.

All students will be in single-occupancy bedrooms in 6- or 8-bedroom shared apartments with kitchen, spacious living room and bathrooms. Priority goes to transfer students first.

Students interested who meet eligibility criteria will be able to express interest/preference in the 12-month contract for Pepper Canyon West during the Continuing Student Housing Application process.

Typical layouts are coming!

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University of California-San Diego (UC San Diego)

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According to our research, 95.0% of freshman live on campus at UCSD?

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The below table outlines the different housing options available at UCSD, and how what percent of students are estimated to live in each type of university housing.

What are the dorms like at University of California-San Diego (UC San Diego)?

You’ll have to watch the CampusReel videos to see for sure. However, University of California-San Diego (UC San Diego) dorms are similar to most college housing options. Most on-campus residence halls include singles, double, and suites. Floor plans vary from residence hall to residence hall. CampusReel hosts dorm tours of University of California-San Diego (UC San Diego), and every one is different. As you’ll see, every dorm room is decorated in a unique and fun way - students are creative with their setups to make University of California-San Diego (UC San Diego) feel like home!

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Virtual Reality, Campus Tours and Resource Fairs Showcase UC San Diego at Triton Day

Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications

T housands of newly admitted students and their families visited campus on Saturday for Triton Day, an annual event that showcases all that UC San Diego has to offer. Students toured residence halls, attended academic presentations, watched performances by student organizations and much more. These visitors were also the first to try a new virtual reality experience based on UC San Diego technology: Shakeboarding. The activity allowed students to simulate surfing, experience an earthquake and wipe out—all on dry land.

Outside the Career Services Center, a giant blue wave made out of foam pool noodles provided the backdrop for the Shakeboard—a surfboard mounted on a small shake table—which students were invited to ride one at a time. Once harnessed in and positioned on the board, the participant was given a headset and pair of Oculus Rift goggles to wear, and through the power of virtual reality, was transported to the waves of Black’s Beach. The board tilted and vibrated to simulate the feeling of surfing. For the finale, the participant was alerted of a 9.9 earthquake that just occurred on land, creating a giant wave and causing the surfer to “wipe out.”

“It was a really interesting experience; it felt so real!” said Nancy Vides, an admitted student who was exploring Triton Day with her sister, Cindy, a current UC San Diego Muir College student.

The simulation was designed as a new way for students to experience firsthand the breakthrough research and innovation that happens at UC San Diego. Only a few steps away from the exhibit, current students from the Division of Biological Sciences and Jacobs School of Engineering manned displays and demonstrations to explain the UC San Diego technology behind Shakeboarding: the unique algae-based sustainable surfboard and the large, high-performance outdoor shake table, capable of simulating a 9.9 earthquake.

Luis Camarda, one of the biology students, demonstrated how they turn vials of algae oil into the foam used to make the surfboard. He said many of the students and parents he talked with were really excited about the idea.

“Everyone can relate to the environment, whether or not they are interested in chemistry,” he said. “There’s a lot of excitement around green tech and getting off of petroleum.”

At the engineering table, Triton Day guests were invited to “make their own earthquake.” Their table had a small structure made of K’NEX building blocks that was positioned on top of a miniature shake table. On the ground in front of the booth, a yoga mat with an accelerometer was linked to a computer and the shake table. When students jumped on the mat, the K’NEX structure shook, simulating an earthquake.

“It’s definitely not your traditional info booth,” said Armen Azizian, a structural engineering graduate student. Azizian said he enjoyed sharing the technology with admitted students one-on-one, including those who aren’t necessarily going to be engineering majors.

All across campus, UC San Diego was buzzing with activity designed to welcome new students and present the many opportunities available to Triton undergraduates. Student organizations filled Library Walk, and Town Square provided an information fair of student support services. The undergraduate colleges hosted residential life information sessions and tours, as well as resource fairs to showcase each college’s unique offerings in academic and student life. Visitors were invited to tour the Stuart Collection’s Fallen Star, attend a theatre rehearsal and visit community gardens on campus.

“My advice to new students is to take advantage of the opportunities here, and get involved with research,” said Marissa Tessman, a second-year graduate student in chemistry and biochemistry. Tessman transferred to UC San Diego for her undergraduate degree. “Getting involved with a lab [as an undergraduate] gave me real-world experience. I enjoyed it so much I decided to stay on as a graduate student.”

Triton Day also highlighted four new cutting-edge engaged learning tools launched by the Teaching + Learning Commons: The Research Experience and Applied Learning (REAL) Portal, which makes it easy for students to search for internships, research opportunities and other activities; the Co-Curricular Record (CCR), an official record of leadership and volunteer activities that can be shared with potential employers; Enhanced Electronic Transcript, a redesigned online academic record that includes broader contextual information about courses; and E-Portfolio, which allows students to visually tell their academic and professional story. UC San Diego is one of the first universities in the country to offer these tools that not only engage students, but provide experiential learning opportunities to help develop important transferable skills that employers look for when interviewing candidates.

In the heart of campus, across from the Triton statue, students and their families lined up along a big white tent sponsored by Microsoft. Inside, a bank of computers was available for admits to sign their Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) and officially start their UC San Diego journey.

“I love San Diego,” said Tabitha Ranclin. A resident of Pico Rivera in Los Angeles County, Ranclin said she had visited the campus a couple of times before. On this visit, she decided to make it her academic home. Leaving the tent with a big smile, Ranclin said she had just signed her SIR; she’ll be starting at Warren College in the fall.

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