Your First College Year Survey
UC San Diego
First Year Survey (YFCY) will open Spring 2025!
The UC San Diego First Year Survey is your opportunity to tell us about your experiences during your first year at UC San Diego. In partnership with the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA, UC San Diego offers this survey to all first year and new transfer students to our campus. Results are used to develop and improve first year and transfer student services and support programs to enhance the undergraduate experience.
New First-Year students and Transfers, please check your email for a link
sent from the following email address:
admin@heri-team.cresst.org
for your chance to participate in the YFCY and enter the prize drawings!
Prizes include:
Ten Visa and Bookstore Cards
Results from the Your First College Year Survey (YFCY) offer a window into the first-year experience, providing important information on UCSD students’ adjustment to college, academic outcomes and experiences, co-curricular experiences, satisfaction, and overall growth. All reports are in PDF format.
YFCY Marketing Grab-Bag
2021 YFCY Survey
2019 YFCY Survey
2017 YFCY Survey
- First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- Non-First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- All Student Responses
- 2017 Executive Summary Slide Show
Info-Graphics
- 2017 YFCY Info-Graphic - All Students
- 2017 YFCY Info-Graphic - First Generation Students Responses
- 2017 YFCY Info-Graphic - Freshman vs Transfer Comparison
2016-2017 Longitudinal
2016 YFCY Survey
- First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- Non-First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- All Student Responses
- 2016 Executive Summary Slide Show
Info-Graphics
2015-2016 Longitudinal
2015 YFCY Survey
- First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- Non-First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- All Student Responses
- 2015 Executive Summary Slide Show
- Climate Indicators by URM, Sexual Orientation and Pell Grant Status
- Climate Indicator Slide Show by URM, Sexual Orientation and Pell Grant Status
Info-Graphics
2014-2015 Longitudinal
2014 YFCY Survey
- 2014 YFCY Info-Graphic
- First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- Non-First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- All Student Responses
- 2014 Executive Summary Slide Show
2013-2014 Longitudinal
2013 YFCY Survey
- 2013 YFCY Info-Graphic
- First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- Non-First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- All Student Responses
- 2013 Executive Summary Slide Show
2012-2013 Longitudinal
2010 YFCY Survey
- 2010 YFCY Info-Graphic
- First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- Non-First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- All Student Responses
- 2010 Executive Summary Slide Show
2009-2010 Longitudinal
2009 YFCY Survey
2008-2009
2008 YFCY Survey
2007-2008
2007 YFCY Survey
2006-2007 Longitudinal
2005 YFCY Survey
2004 YFCY Survey
2003 YFCY Survey
- First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- Non-First Time, Full Time Student Responses
- 2002-2003 Longitudinal
- The Academic, Social, and Emotional Change in Freshman Students from Orientation through the First College Year (PowerPoint Presentation)
- Comparing the Academic Transition of Freshmen and Transfer Students in the Research University (PowerPoint Presentation)