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Our Impact

Indelible Impact

Graduate students and alumni transform our region for the better in ways both seen and unseen. Learn about the impact these inspiring individuals are creating.

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Our Changemakers

Graduate students and alumni are anything but ordinary--  they conduct research, mentor undergraduates, become industry experts, and go on to discover novel approaches, patent new technologies, and change the world.

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Tell us your graduate education impact story so we can learn how you create change in your community.

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Our Priorities

UC San Diego began with a inaugural class of 107 graduate students. In just 60 years, we've grown into a world-class institution with nearly 9,000 graduate and professional students spanning 127 programs.

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Chancellor's Challenge

In Spring 2021, Chancellor Khosla announced new gifts to graduate fellowships will be matched 1:2 to increase access for the next generation of changemakers.

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Make an Impact

We are grateful to the many generous donors who choose to support graduate education at UC San Diego and we invite you to join us.

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We offer a wide variety of academic and professional graduate degree programs and we welcome talented prospective students from across the nation and around the world to apply for admission.

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Our Foundation

Unlike other institutions, UC San Diego was established through cutting-edge graduate teaching and research from the beginning, so we could attract the very best scholars. And they came.

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