UC-SantaCruz, Santa Cruz Ranking 2026 from QS, THE & US NEWS

• Depending on the degree, a student can earn anywhere from $50000 to $200000 annually. I expect somewhere around $70000 annually after graduation.
• There are many IT companies that take students. These companies include Intel, Google, Nvidia, and Meta.
• Students apply to jobs through any application website. They can choose to apply through Handshake but Handshake is not reliable for off-campus or high-paying jobs.
   

• For my freshman year, you have to take on-campus housing as it is required. You also have to get a meal plan.
• The prices are on the UCSC website. My sophomore year, I applied to on-campus apartments and got a room.
• My current rent is 1400 monthly. There are no utility payments and there are 6 people in my apartment. There is a living room. kitchen, two large triple bedrooms with 3 people in each room, and a bathroom.
• The on-campus housing is very nice and convenient. Housing in Santa Cruz is a very difficult thing to find. Students that are lucky stay on campus. Or else, they have to find places of campus. It is the same for Indian students.

• I'm not really sure of the statistics, since PhD students don't really consult each other while applying for jobs in the same way that Masters students do.
• 130K-ish. In California, 70K is the poverty line so you should have at least a 100K+ job for your degree to be worthwhile.
• LinkedIn, cold applications on companies' websites, referrals (it is somewhat rare).
• Google, Meta, Tesla, and bunch of Silicon Valley companies.

• I applied for the university's Graduate Student Housing programme and got it.
• $1400 includes internet, water, electricity, and parking
• I personally did not face a lot of challenges. But for students in the Master's program, getting a place in university housing is difficult so they have to search for off-campus housing in Santa Cruz. I've heard this is expensive, and the rents off-campus are also $1400, but WITHOUT utilities.
• GSH is literally next to the Baskin Engineering building where my classes and lab are located.

• However, not everyone is guaranteed to get TA. Its just statistics that everyone usually ends up with a TA. However, the college is not responsible if you don't get a TA.
• The major companies hiring from the college are
• EPIC Health
• Ericsson
• Arista Networks
• Expedia
• Meta
• Nvidia
• Cadence
• Intel
• Marvell technology
• Keysight technology

• Finding accommodation in Santa Cruz is the hardest. It is ranked worst in the entire US.
• However, using sites like Zillow, Placeforrent, fb market place helps a lot. The best case is to contact seniors to see if anyone is graduating and take their spot and items, which will be significantly cheaper and save time.
• My monthly rent when I came from India without any help from seniors was 1100 dollars. But after 1 year, I was able to find housing for 800 dollars. It is best to take advice from people who have been in the area before making a deal.
• Since the college housing is not adequate in numbers, you can expect to live at least 4-5 miles from campus and travel by bus.

Apart from the technical field, science graduates can also work in marketing, business and other research field as well. science graduates can work as medical representative, consultant, junior engineer, teachers and many more.

Because this college is very nice and that campus is also very nice. and the admission process is simply not bad at all. And counselling members are also nice and there are all required documents with us. It's not hard to take the admission process

I initially wanted to be a computer science: video game design major and it is the only UC that offers it as a major. Location is also great because it is close to where I live so I get to save on housing.