Welcome to
UC San Diego!
Megan Schuck
Academic Advisor
Extension International
Programs
Where is San Diego?
UCSD and San Diego
The Ten UC Campuses
Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
Los Angeles
Merced
Riverside
San Diego
San Francisco
Santa Barbara
Santa Cruz
San Diego
Downtown San Diego
Mission Beach
Mission Beach
La Jolla Shores
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2nd largest city in California
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7th largest city in United States
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Population: 1.3 million in city; more than 2.8
million in county, (County Area: 12,000 km2)
San Diego
America’s #1 City for Business:
■ Most-diversified high-tech economy
■ Biotech, communication, software, and
information technology
Forbes Magazine/Milken Institute survey
UC San Diego and
Surrounding Area
Many beaches are walking distance
UC San Diego was
founded in 1960 and
celebrated its 50th
anniversary during
the 2010-2011
academic year.
UC San Diego
UCSD
Top-Ranked University
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#2 University in the US by the Washington Monthly
#5 in R&D expenditure
#1 undergraduate bioengineering program
#14 in annual world-class university ranking (2013) by
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
#10 in the field of Engineering /Technology and
Computer Sciences (2012) by Shanghai Jiao Tong
University
6 Nobel Prize winners on current faculty
#1 Surf School in the United States by Surfline
UC San Diego
Student Center
The Geisel Library
• Contains several
specialized campus
library holdings
• Has over 3 million
bound volumes
• Has over 25,000 paper
and electronic journals
• The Geisel Library is
the symbol of UCSD
•The Super
Computer
The Business Schools
• The Rady School of
Management
– Executive and MBA
programs
– Brings together business
and technology
• The Graduate School of
International Relations and
Pacific Studies (IRPS)
– Focusing on business
and area studies for the
Pacific Rim.
– Training business people
and government officials
The Arts
• The Theatre and Dance Department
– Ranked #3 in the nation
– Students have the opportunity to work at
the famous La Jolla Playhouse on
campus.
• Department of Music
– Faculty and students frequently perform
together in concerts, on recordings, and
at national and international venues.
• Department of Visual Arts
– One of the most highly ranked art
programs within a university in the
country
– Includes: Painting, drawing, sculpture,
performance, computing in the arts, film,
video, photography, and criticism
A History of Faculty
and Alumni Nobel Prize Winners
at UC San Diego
Year Recipient
Department
1934
1962
1963
1970
1974
1975
1975
1990
1995
1995
1996
2002
Chemistry
Physiology/Medicine
Physics
Physics
School of Medicine
School of Medicine
Chemistry
Economics
Scripps Institute
Chemistry/Biochemistry
Pathology
School of Medicine
Economics
Economics
Chemistry/Biochemistry
2003
2008
Harold Urey
Francis Crick
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Hannes Alfvén
George Palade
Renato Dulbecco
Walter Kohn
Harry Markowitz
Paul Crutzen
Mario Molina
Rolf Zinkernagel
Sydney Brenner
Robert Engle
Clive Granger
Roger Tsien
Extension International
Programs and
the English Language
Institute
UC San Diego Extension
International Programs
• English Language Institute
• Certificate Programs
• University Credit Programs
University and Professional
Studies (UPS)
• 12 units (full-time) UCSD or Extension
courses and Academic Advising
• Official UCSD or UCSD Extension transcript
• Credit may be transferred to another
American university or college or the home
institution
Nils Nilson,
Norway
• Eligibility to apply for Optional Practical
Training (OPT) after three (3) consecutive
quarters (9 months)
Class planning for the
UPS program
• To view possible classes for the
quarter of your UCSD
attendance, go to:
http://students.ucsd.edu
• Then, click on “Full Schedule of
Classes.”
Select Search Term
On this screen you can search courses by:
subject, department, code, section id, by
professor or course title. On the right side of
the screen you can select courses based on
level such as: lower division, upper division
and/or graduate.
When you have made your selection of the
below categories, click the ‘Search’ button
1.
Quarter
2.
Subject/Department
3.
Level
EXAMPLE: If you searched for Winter Quarter 2013,
ANTH-Anthropology, course # 1-99 and 100-198, your
results would look like this:
UC San Diego Extension
International Programs
For more information about any
of our programs, please email:
ups@ucsd.edu