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The UCSB Visitor Center offers guided walking tours and admission presentations.

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How can i become a ucsb tour guide.

Generally, we recruit and hire a new class of tour guides every year during fall quarter. For the most up-to-date information on our next application cycle, check out our Prospective Tour Guides page .

How can I take a tour of UCSB?

Guided campus tours are available in a limited capacity. Join us for a 75-minute walking tour of the beautiful UCSB campus! Registration is required. Please note we are updating our visit calendar in 2-3 week increments. If you are unable to take a guided tour, you are still welcome to explore campus on your own! View our self-guided visit options below and register for your date of interest to receive information on how to make the most of your visit. The Visitor Center offers online visits so that you can learn more about campus, academics, and student life and ask your questions. Join our student tour guides for a guided virtual tour to explore campus.

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• 6 Nobel Laureates – physics (3), chemistry (2) and economics (1)
• #5 Public University – Forbes  magazine
• #12 Public University – U.S. News & World Report
• An Elite Research University – AAU membership
• 29 National Academy of Engineering Members

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UC, Santa Barbara is a mid-sized university of approximately 26,000+ students that offers a world-class education in a picturesque seaside location set against the backdrop of the Santa Ynez Mountains. UCSB students and faculty are part of an academic community that is ranked among the top research and teaching institutions in the United States. Faculty include  six Nobel Prize  winners and many other award-winning scholars. 

The 1,055-acre campus is located on the Pacific Ocean off of Highway 101 in Central California – 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles and 330 miles southeast of San Francisco. The closest city centers are Goleta – 3 miles and downtown Santa Barbara – 10 miles.

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Traveling north.

• Exit the 101 Freeway at the Airport / UCSB (Route 217) off-ramp and proceed through the Henley Gate at the east campus entrance.  
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Traveling South

• Exit the 101 Freeway at the Los Carneros Road (Exit 107) off-ramp.
• Turn right onto Los Carneros Road and continue to Mesa Road and take a left.  

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College of Engineering Prospective Student Visits

The College hosts a variety of sessions throughout the year (listed below) designed to introduce prospective students to the curriculum, research opportunities, study abroad, and the student experience in the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara.

Please note, due to the nature of the research conducted in labs, as well as labs being actively used, we do not offer tours of engineering labs or facilities.  You may review a selection of photographs of lab spaces here , watch a student led video tour of an Electrical & Computer Engineering lab here , and tour the Machine Shop here .

Presentations for Prospective Engineering Students and Families

ONGOING:   Check out our College of Engineering virtual open house webpage for examples of student research, virtual lab tours, and hear from current students and student organizations.

UCSB OPEN HOUSE spring 2024

The spring 2024 UCSB Open House will take place on Saturday, April 13, 2024. Please visit the  UCSB Admissions Open House  page for the most up to date information and registration details.

Spring 2024 Engineering Presentations

Learn about the engineering curriculum, research, education abroad opportunities, internships, and more!  The session will be presented by an academic advisor from the College of Engineering and is best suited for students, friends, and family who have already been admitted to the College of Engineering at the freshman or transfer levels. Requirements for UC admission will not be covered in this presentation so prospective students and guests are strongly encouraged to attend a UC Santa Barbara Office of Admissions Campus presentation .

Spring 2024 presentations:   please click on the date below to fill out the reservation form: Thursday, March 28, 2024 1:00 pm Monday, April 1, 2024 1:00 pm.  Presentation space at capacity, no longer accepting RSVPS. Thursday, April 4, 2024 1:00 pm

If you would like to visit UCSB another day or time of year, the UCSB Visitor's Center offers tours and presentations year-round.  Unfortunately, we are unable to accommodate tours of our labs and engineering facilities.  Enjoy a tour of various COE undergraduate labs here and a selection of photographs of lab spaces here .  You may also view a student led tour of an ECE lab here , or view an additional tour of the Machine Shop here .

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Week of Welcome Self-Guided Tour

You are here.

Visit the Library any time this week to take a self-guided mobile tour that will help you become familiar with important resources and services available to students.

Tour finishers are invited to join us for a special social event in Learning & Instruction 1312 on Wednesday, September 25th . 

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• Introduction (start here)
• 1st Floor (Mountain Side)
• 1st Floor (Ocean Side)
• 3rd Floor (Mountain Side)
• Music Library (Optional)
• 5th-8th Floors
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Turn south (left) as you come out of the elevators and you'll see a long hallway ending in the entrance to the Library Administration Offices .  Most of the space on this floor is used for library offices, conference rooms, or processing space (where books are kept before moving to their final place on the collections shelves). If you head south toward the back of the area you'll see the Mary Cheadle Conference Room. This floor is also where our catalogers work to put information about our collections into UC Library Search. 

UCSB Reads is led by the UCSB Library with campus and community partners.  The posters in this hallway show our past UCSB Reads selections.  You may see the UCSB Reads book for this year discussed in your classes, advertised in connection with speakers on campus, and incorporated elsewhere into your academic life at UCSB. Follow posts marked #UCSBReads on social media, or refer to the library website.  

Photos for this tour taken from the UCSB Library Flickr Photostream .

• << Previous: 3rd Floor (Mountain Side)
• Next: Music Library (Optional) >>
• Last Updated: Apr 2, 2024 11:20 AM
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Stanley Museum of Art

Social Justice Self-Guided Tour

Long before I had applied to this internship, I thought that a social justice self-guided tour would be a really interesting way for guests to engage with the galleries. As a Social Justice major at the university, I am instantly drawn to these themes in artwork. When I first saw Red April by Sam Gilliam and I knew that the piece needed to be included in this tour. 

Once I got the position as the Campus Engagement Coordinator, this was one of the projects that I really wanted to take on. However, I had not realized how much work goes into these tours. I needed to find items on display that connected with my theme, research the pieces and the artists, and write up the tour.

 My biggest challenge was coordinating this tour around the rotation of artworks in the gallery. We rotate artworks about every three months in order to preserve more light sensitive pieces. With the rate of the rotations, I needed to be able to plan how long the pieces I selected would be up in the galleries to correspond with my tour. 

Ultimately, my project came together and I could not be more proud of how it turned out! This was a valuable experience in terms of using both my major and my passion for the arts. Moreso, I hope that future editions of a Social Justice self-guided tour will be created and used at the museum. I know that not everyone instantly thinks of themes of social justice when looking at art, but I hope this tour helped put some pieces into a new perspective. 

In case you were not able to grab a copy of the tour in person, the entire self-guided tour is featured in the photo gallery of this post! 

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