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Welcome to the University of California, Davis! UC Davis is one of ten University of California campuses located in Northern California – 70 miles from San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean beaches, and 100 miles from the beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains and Lake Tahoe, and 180 miles from Yosemite National Park. Students enjoy the college town feel of Davis, while still being able to quickly travel to many of California’s greatest cities, beaches, ski slopes, and tourist destinations.
As a UC Davis reciprocity student, one of your first stops on campus should be the Education Abroad Center on the corner of 3rd and A streets, at 207 Third St, Suite 120. Here, you will have the opportunity to meet the academic advisors, office staff, and student interns. You will also be able to get in touch with students returning from abroad who will be able to give you information about general student and academic life at UC Davis. Below you will find links to help you prepare for your stay at UC Davis. Please take some time to explore and learn more about our campus.
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Information about Davis, CA
Upon Arrival
U.C. Davis Resources
Activities
Course Registration
Frequently Asked Questions
- University of California, Davis
- UC Davis Services for International Students & Scholars (SISS)
- City of Davis Homepage
- Davis Wiki: An online guide to everything about Davis created for and edited by the people of Davis!
- UC Davis campus life and activities
- Davis Maps
- Getting to Davis: Directions to UC Davis campus from airports and surrounding areas.
- Davis Airporter: Door to door airport service to and from Sacramento or San Francisco International Airport.
- Davis Hotel Guide
- Housing Information for International Students and Scholars
- My UCDavis: Access e-mail, course information, and other student resources at this student homepage!
- Cowell Student Health Center: On-campus health center.
- UC Davis Bookstore: On-campus bookstore where students purchase textbooks, supplies, and UC Davis wear.
- Learning Skills Center (LSC): LSC offers free academic assistance to UC Davis students in: Study Skills, Mathematics/Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, Genetics, Biology, Spanish, Writing, and English as a Second Language.
- Things to do on and off campus!
- Facebook – A popular social networking site among UC Davis students.
- Find us on Facebook! Just search for our profile—Eac Ucdavis! We’ll keep you updated on all our events!
- Club I: Internationals and the Americans Who Love ‘Em Group
- UC Davis EAP Exchange Students 2007-08 Group
- Services for International Students and Scholars Group
All students at UC Davis register for classes electronically via the web-based registration system SISWEB. Registration takes place during two intervals called “passes.” The two-pass registration system ensures that all students have access to the courses that are most critical to their curricula, and that access to registration is distributed fairly throughout the student body. The steps to registering for classes is as follows:
- Establish a campus computing account
- Go to: http://computingaccounts.ucdavis.edu
- Click on “Get Your UC Davis Computing Account”
- You will use your student ID number, issued to you via email
- Enter your name exactly as you did on your EAP application
- Once your account is activated, you will be issued a User ID and “Kerberos” password. This User ID and Password will allow you to login to the SISWEB system.
- Select your courses
- View the UC Davis General Catalog
- Click on the department where you wish to take courses; this will take you to general information about the department.
- Click on “Courses” at the top to display courses that are offered in the department throughout the year.
- Determine time and days that courses are offered
- View the Schedule of Classes
- Click on the department where you wish to take courses; this will display the times and days that courses are offered.
- Register for courses
- Once you have chosen your courses for the quarter, and your campus computing account is active, you can register for your courses.
- Go to http://sisweb.ucdavis.edu to access the SISWEB registration website.
- Use the Kerberos User ID and Password you obtained from computing accounts above, and follow directions from there.
- Again, you will need your Student ID and PAC numbers to access your record, and you will be required to change your PAC number after your first login for security.
- Complete instructions for registering for courses can be found at: http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/csrg/accesssisweb.html, please read through all the tabs before you begin your registration process.
Click here to view a PDF (59kb) of Frequently Asked Questions.
