Internationally Respected Academics

Interdisciplinary programs

Your diverse and innovative interests may not fit into one specific major. UC San Diego offers courses of study to match your talents with the world around you. Check out what’s offered within majors, departments and the colleges.

Undergraduates benefit from working with graduate students in our interdisciplinary programs. In large departments, grad students will be your TAs (teaching assistants) and in smaller departments, you'll be taking classes, researching, and working on projects alongside the masters and PhD candidates.

Faculty Voices

Teddy Cruz	Camille Forbes	Paul Siegel	María Luisa Zúñiga	Jerry Yang
Visual Arts	Literature	Engineering	Medicine / Global Public Health	Chemistry & Biochemistry
His work in public culture and urbanism along the Tijuana-San Diego border was featured in MoMA New York, which included affordable housing projects to deal with effects of gentrification.	Director of the Literature Department’s Undergraduate Studies, she has also performed stand-up comedy acts and a one-woman stage piece “Tales of Suburban Squalor.”	Named a Master Inventor at IBM Research, he is a leading authority on coding for hard disk magnetic recording systems.	As Principal Investigator of the Hispanic Serving Health Professions scholar training program, she specializes in the mentorship of students and residents from underrepresented communities in the US.	A Hellman Fellow and an American Cancer Society Research Fellow, he received the California HIV/AIDS IDEA Award in 2011 for his work in Alzheimer’s and reducing HIV infection.

Research

Taking part in undergraduate research provides not only exposure and insight into desired career paths, but also introduces students to great strides in world-renowned research being made by UCSD grad students, researchers and faculty. Whether in the sciences, humanities, or even the arts, you can find opportunities for research through the resources below as well as through individual departments and/or faculty.

Want to do research? Check out the Undergraduate Research Portal, or find an academic internship in any subject, or customize your own!

Majors & Minors

List of undergraduate majors

List of academic departments and programs, which includes minor programs. Here are just some examples: