Serving Students
Basic Needs
UCSF Basic Needs for Students supports students with the essential resources to thrive, including the Student Food Market, finance, housing and transportation resources.
First Generation Support Services
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.
Guardian Scholars Program
The Guardian Scholars Program supports UCSF students who have had prior involvement in foster care.
Learning Resource Services
Learning Resource Services offers support to help UCSF students in all schools and the Graduate Division improve their academic and clinical success.
Office of the Registrar
Register at UCSF, enroll in courses, and pay fees. Also includes information for student records, transcripts, diplomas and verifications.
Student Disability Services
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.
Student Financial Services
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.
Student Mental Health and Wellbeing
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.
Student Life
Student Life is a campus-wide student service providing inclusive and innovative programs and resources to holistically support UCSF students.
Student Veteran and Military Support Services
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
Serving Students and the Campus
Office of Institutional Research
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.
Educational Technology Services
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.
Student and/or Trainee-led
Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA)
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.
Registered Campus Organizations
There are more than 170 RCOs at UCSF, covering a broad range of interests including educational, social, cultural, artistic, recreational, political, and spiritual focuses.
Synapse – the student online newspaper
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.
Administrative
Communications
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 OESA units, seek out collaborative partnerships, and promote and support the needs and perspectives of students and trainees at UCSF.
Finance and Administration
The Finance and Administration team supports fiscal and planning processes across all OESA units and for the vice chancellor’s office.