The campus-wide Slide Collection is housed in the newly renovated Geisel Library with holdings in excess of 250,000 slides. There are three art galleries on campus. The University Art Gallery displays a continually changing series of exhibitions. The Mandeville Annex Gallery is for the use of Visual Arts undergraduates and is located in the Mandeville Center. The Visual Arts Graduate Gallery provides exhibition space in the Visual Arts Facility for graduate first year review shows and MFA exhibitions.
Most applicants are necessarily concerned about possible funding.
The main source of support is in the form of Teaching Assistantships. Additional funding is administered on the basis of availability, the needs of the Department, and the student's overall previous funding. A limited number of tuition and fee scholarships are available through funding we receive from the Office of Graduate Studies. To be eligible, applicants should check the appropriate box under Financial Assistance on the application form. The University of California, San Diego has made a commitment to increase the enrollment of graduate students from those groups such as minorities, women, the older student, and the physically challenged, which have been historically underrepresented in the university as a result of economic, educational, or societal inequities.