Undergraduate Student Surveys
Undergraduate surveys target admitted students, enrolled students, graduating seniors, and alumni. The survey data are used to conduct needs assessment, student services and academic program evaluation, as well as research into institutional effectiveness.
For more information on any of the following surveys, please contact: undergrad-surveys@ucsd.edu.
University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES)
UCUES 2024 is open now!
See our website for more information on how to participate.
University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES) Results
- UCUES provides vital information on student needs, concerns, and experiences essential to developing programs and practices to improve undergraduate life.
- This longitudinal dashboard presents selected survey responses of participating undergraduate students with respect to their academic and research experiences, social and cultural experiences, satisfaction with majors, skills and activities, campus climate, and food and housing security.
- Answers to more than 250 questions are reported. See 2024 UCUES questionnaire for more details.
- Data can be disaggregated by school, college, and department, residency, gender, ethnicity, first generation status, student level, and applicant type.
- Access requires authorization via Active Directory (Single Sign-On).
- All UC campuses participate in the survey. For more details, visit the UC Office of the President’s UCUES Website.
- Longitudinal UCUES core survey data from the nine general UC campuses are available from the UC Infocenter.
The CIRP Freshman Survey (TFS)
The CIRP Freshman Survey (TFS)
- This longitudinal dashboard reports freshmen answers to more than 200 questions about their college selection and college preparation, plans for the future, science orientation, social and political views. Responses from as far as 2010 available by school, college, and department.
- Interactive tool allows for analysis by residency, gender, ethnicity, student level, and applicant type.
- Access requires authorization via Active Directory (Single Sign-On).
- The CIRP Freshman Survey (TFS) opens every September. See our website for more information on how to participate.
Your First College Year (YFCY)
Graduating Student Survey (College Senior Survey (CSS))
The Postbaccalaureate Survey
- The Postbaccalaureate Survey (survey of alumni one, three, and five years after graduation)