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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.
This page at a glance...
Information about Davis, CA
Upon Arrival
U.C. Davis Resources
Activities
Course Registration
Making yourself at home
Before you leave Davis
Frequently Asked Questions
- University of California, Davis - From our University webpage you can access all the academic departments, find courses and events and search for students, faculty and staff
- UC Davis Services for International Students & Scholars (SISS) - find help for visas, work permits, housing and travel information
- City of Davis Homepage - information on the town of Davis including housing, events and political issues
- Davis Wiki: - An online guide to everything about Davis created for and edited by the people of Davis!
- UC Davis campus life and activities - the Wikipedia article that explains everything DAVIS!
- EAP Reciprocity Students’ Videos – Check out these videos for advice from recently departed Reciprocity students!
- New International Student Orientation
Monday, September 14, 2009
8:30 am to 5 pm
Social Science Building
All new international students must attend the orientation program coordinated by Services for International Students and Scholars (SISS). This orientation will provide you with important information about immigration and visa regulations as well as SISS services. The orientation program also helps acquaint international students with the educational and cultural environment at UC Davis, the town of Davis, and provide an opportunity to meet other new international students. For more information and times, please visit http://siss.ucdavis.edu/orient_fall.cfm - 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
- Unitrans - student run buses that can get you anywhere in Davis
- My UCDavis: Access e-mail, course information, and other student resources at this student homepage!
- CAPS: UC Davis Counseling and Psychological Services offers both group and individual counseling options to help students handle stress, depression and home sickness
- Cowell Student Health Center: On-campus health center.
- Shields Library: - largest library on campus, containing large collections in all fields, wireless internet, computer labs with limited free printing and a 24 hour reading room
- 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! - find fun events, performances, lectures and hikes in and around Davis
- Facebook – A popular social networking site among UC Davis students.
- Join us on Facebook! Just search for the UC Davis Education Abroad Center page or click—here! We’ll keep you updated on all our events!
- Club I: Internationals and the Americans Who Love ‘Em Group
- International House: the I-house offers events and classes for both international students and those Davis students who wish to make international friends
- 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.
- Craigslist: lists, among other things, postings for rooms and apartments for rent (make sure to search for “Davis”) OR you can search for furniture and bicycles
- Community Housing Listing: posts by members of the UC Davis community for empty rooms and apartments
- IKEA: most of the apartments students rent are unfurnished so you can go to IKEA to pick up some cheap furniture and household supplies
- WALMART: a superstore that has extremely cheap household items, this store is right next door to IKEA
- Bike Barn: Davis is known for its biking and its bicyclists. Biking is the easiest way to get around our large campus and our town. The bike barn has bike auctions twice a year and is a great place to get your bike fixed
- Sisweb: gives you access to your transcripts and bills at UC Davis. Before you leave make sure to check that you do not have any outstanding bills (health insurance, overdue library books, overprinting fees, Cowell health center bill, etc.) because if you have to pay them from your home country it will cost a lot more
Click here to view a PDF (59kb) of Frequently Asked Questions.
