The home of graduate education and postdoctoral training at UCSF, we offer 20 PhD programs in basic, translational, and social/population sciences; 12 master’s degree programs; and two professional doctorates.

Visit the Graduate Division website

UCSF Basic Needs for Students supports students with the essential resources to thrive, including the Student Food Market, finance, housing and transportation resources.

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We support and celebrate the educational journey of students who are among the first in their family to attend college. First Generation Support Services (FGSS) serves the students whose parents/caregivers did not graduate from a four-year college. 

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The Guardian Scholars Program supports UCSF students who have had prior involvement in foster care.

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Learning Resource Services offers support to help UCSF students in all schools and the Graduate Division improve their academic and clinical success.

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Register at UCSF, enroll in courses, and pay fees. Also includes information for student records, transcripts, diplomas and verifications.

Visit the Office of the Registrar website

We serve, support, and empower UCSF students with disabilities by ensuring equitable access to fully and holistically participate in all areas of the university experience.

Visit the Student Disability Services website

Financial aid is awarded to students who have demonstrated financial need, in accordance with federal and UCSF policies. Financial aid is awarded based on the concept of equity packaging.

Visit the Student Financial Services website

Our mission is to optimize the physical and mental health of students in order to help them achieve academic success, personal development and lifelong wellness.

Visit the Student Mental Health and wellbeing website

Student Life is a campus-wide student service providing inclusive and innovative programs and resources to holistically support UCSF students.

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We provide our veterans and military-affiliated students at UCSF with a supportive community, mentorship opportunities, guidance on educational benefits, and tools to succeed both academically and personally.

Visit the Student Veteran and Military Support Services website

We advise scholars and students from around the globe in visa matters related to their programs of study, research, or work at the University of California, San Francisco.

Visit the International Students and Scholars Office website

We are a multidisciplinary team committed to designing career and professional development training, tools and opportunities for our emerging clinicians and scientists.

Visit the Office of Career and Professional Development website

We are responsible for campus-wide institutional research activities and initiatives, including the organization, collection and analysis of campus data in response to requests from internal and external organizations.

Visit the Office of Institutional Research website

Our mission is to support and enhance UCSF’s instructional, learning and presentation environment that reflects its role as a leading health sciences teaching and research institution.

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We serve as a central resource and information conduit for all postdocs as well as for faculty and staff who work with postdocs at UCSF.

Visit the Office for Postdoctoral Scholars website

We ARE graduate students, FOR graduate students.

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We serve the collective interests of graduate and professional students at UCSF in order to improve student life on a university and system wide level through dialogue, action, and activities between students, faculty, and staff. 

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Our mission is to foster and organize professional and social interactions among all postdoctoral scholars and our surrounding community.

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There are more than 170 RCOs at UCSF, covering a broad range of interests including educational, social, cultural, artistic, recreational, political, and spiritual focuses. 

Visit the Registered Campus Organizations website

As one of the few truly interprofessional networks on campus, Synapse provides a platform to encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary communication among all UCSF students and trainees while fostering career and professional development in journalism.

Visit the Synapse website

We provide centralized communications services and support. Communications staff also serve on campus-wide committees to strengthen the quality of communications, create and share resources that benefit all SAA units, seek out collaborative partnerships, and promote and support the needs and perspectives of students and trainees at UCSF.

The Finance and Administration team supports fiscal and planning processes across all SAA departments and for the vice chancellor’s office.