UCSD undergraduate students are among the most academically outstanding high school graduates. For students with financial need, scholarships help bridge the gap between college expenses and financial aid, and can be the deciding factor on whether a student attends UCSD, or even if he or she will attend college at all.

As a young campus with a small endowment, UCSD needs your help to increase financial aid to deserving students, thus improving our ability to recruit promising students regardless of financial capability. You can transform a talented student's life by giving to existing scholarship funds. Gifts to scholarships can be made at any level and can be directed to your area of interest. Or you can establish an endowed scholarship. Named at your request, this scholarship will exist in perpetuity; annual payments from the endowment support the scholarship while the value of the fund continues to grow.

In 2004-05, UCSD awarded private scholarships to a mere 929 of its 20,339 undergraduates.  These scholarships averaged only $2,300 – barely enough to make a dent in undergraduate living expenses, estimated at nearly $21,000 a year, including tuition and fees. At $2.2 million annually, UCSD’s scholarship funding is one-fourth that of UCLA and one-eighth of UC Berkeley’s. 

Your gift toward an undergraduate scholarship will help today’s best and brightest young students attend UCSD. For more information, contact Kim Signoret-Paar at kspaar@ucsd.edu, or call (858) 822-1536.

You will also find more information regarding undergraduate scholarships at www.studentsupport.ucsd.edu.