University of California-San Diego Top Questions

A beautiful campus in an ideal location and perfect for those interested in the sciences.

UCSD is an academically challenging and rigorous school with a beautiful beach front and so-cal culture.

UCSD is a beautiful campus. There is a field of eucalyptus trees leading to the library that beautiful. The campus is east to manuver on foot. The beach is minutes away and many students enjoy studying on the beach. The dorms are very nice, especially at Muir. Some of the Muir dorms have an ocean view. The campus is well maintained and the student center is fantastic. It is a fantastic campus.

The professors are great at their fields but have too many students to be caring teachers. Know what you want and actively look for opportunities; the school won't help you out very much, but the resources are there.

UC San Diego is a diverse community.

It is what you make of it.

This school is highly competetive and focused in sciences; the large classroom sizes make it difficult to get to know your professors, but they tend to have more knowledge than professors at other universities.

UCSD is a pretty spread out campus composed of six colleges. Each college has its own residential halls and apartments, dining hall, market, administration offices, and lecture halls (although your classes can be in any lecture hall on campus). UCSD is definitely built for walking, with very few streets that go into the school, and a fair number of hills in the school. It's built around canyons (in Sixth and Warren) and has a patch of trees in the middle of the school. There are pretty random art structures around the school, including a giant bear made out of rocks, a house hanging off of the top of the engineering building, and a blue net in the middle of the forest.

UCSD is a pretty spread out campus composed of six colleges. Each college has its own residential halls and apartments, dining hall, market, administration offices, and lecture halls (although your classes can be in any lecture hall on campus). UCSD is definitely built for walking, with very few streets that go into the school, and a fair number of hills in the school. It's built around canyons (in Sixth and Warren) and has a patch of trees in the middle of the school. There are pretty random art structures around the school, including a giant bear made out of rocks, a house hanging off of the top of the engineering building, and a blue net in the middle of the forest.

I was lucky enough to have already known the campus a little before going to UCSD as a student but even with that knowledge, the campus was still huge and I was scared of getting lost. When I bring my friends over, they also think the campus is really huge but they also love the art around. UCSD has a lot of art displayed around campus in forms of a giant chair, a boat, singing/talking/silent trees, and many others. The campus is a really beautiful place: there are nice buildings (especially in Eleanor Roosevelt College), the weather is amazing, and there are a lot of people around.