Admissions

Information for Applicants

Thank you for applying to UC Santa Barbara. A person is considered a formal applicant once the application has been submitted and the $60 application fee has been paid. Once the application and fee payment have been processed by the UC Santa Barbara Graduate Division, applicants can monitor the application status online.

To check the application status, visit the E-app page. As long as Graduate Division has processed the application, one will be able to see the following:

1. Date application payment was received and processed.
2. If official GRE and/or TOEFL (if applicable) scores have been received from ETS
3. Status of application in the review process
4. Application decision

There is also a section to monitor the receipt of supplemental application materials, such as;

1. Letters of Recommendation
2. Statement of Purpose
3. Writing Sample (if applicable)
4. Portfolio (if applicable)
5. Media (if applicable)
6. Any additional required departmental materials

*All supplemental application materials should be sent directly to the prospective academic department using the department specific 4 digit code, and not to the Graduate Division.

For the receipt of supplemental materials to appear on the application status check page, the department to which an applicant is applying must receive the materials and manually enter the information online. Entering this information can be time consuming, so please be patient. It is the discretion of the department to enter the received materials into the application status check page. If the department does not post the supplemental materials online, please contact the department by email for confirmation of the receipt of all required supplemental application materials.

Please note that admission decisions are communicated to applicants via the online application status check. The UCSB Graduate Division and departments cannot communicate admission decisions via email or telephone.

Application decisions are also made solely by the department (the Graduate Division does not review application materials). If there are any questions or concerns regarding an application decision, please contact the department directly for more information.

If there are still other questions or problems pertaining to a submitted online application, please contact GRADadmissions@graddiv.ucsb.edu