Supporting Graduate Students |

Challenges Facing Graduate Students

Graduate education is a core priority for the University of California, Riverside and an essential driver of our research, teaching, and public service mission. Past investments in graduate education have collectively been substantial but the challenges facing individual students have been mounting for many years. UCR faculty, staff, and administrators are, by and large, graduate degree holders. We understand these challenges and are committed to working with our students to address them.

On these pages, you will find information about graduate student wages, housing, job prospects, and mental health.

^{If you are looking for information on graduate recruitment, admissions, academic affairs, fellowships, grants, employment, and mentoring please visit the UCR Graduate Division website.}

Updates

20 Mar

Graduate Student Support at UCR

Dear Colleagues, Graduate education is a core priority for the University of California, Riverside and an essential driver of our research, teaching, and public service mission. Unrelenting cost of living escalation in California has resulted in recent unrest at UC...

Graduate Student News

18 Feb

‘Rocky’ in Riverside?

UCR alums and students deliver a one-two punch to help at-risk youth through Raincross Boxing Academy.

Three of the four co-founders of R'Grad Peer Support Group at UC Riverside. (UCR)

03 Feb

Graduate students create mental health support network

R’Grad Peer Support Group meets weekly and is designed to be a nonclinical outlet.

06 Dec

She sees dead people

History doctoral student Alyse Yeargan studies photographs of the deceased to understand how and why we grieve