See the Campus with a UCR Student as your Guide
The Campus Tours Office leads guided walking tours of the campus throughout the year. Guests get an up-close look at our beautiful campus, learn about its history--and its future--as our students show off buildings, the park-like grounds, and dynamic new facilities.
Tours for Prospective Students
Prospective and newly admitted students and their families can reserve a 50-minute walking tour of the campus throughout the year. Tour will include a visit to a library, one lecture hall, the learning center, student store, student commons, and routed along a student's walking path to class. And if you visit around noon, there will be much to see and eat all over campus.
Reserve a Tour
Reserve the prospective student tour online.
Reservations are required for all tours, as space is limited.
Click here to reserve a prospective student tour.
Cancel or reschedule a previously scheduled tour.
First cancel your tour, then schedule a new date and time.
Click here to cancel a previously scheduled tour.
Take a Self-guided Tour
At UCR, we highly recommend that you take one of our fun and informative student-led campus tours. But if you are unable to do so, or if you happen to be a rugged individualist and prefer to tour on your own, just download one of the following Self-guided Tours.
We've created one general campus tour "Highlights and Hidden Treasures," as well as tours for our three undergraduate colleges. Download one or more of the PDFs below and bring them with you when you come to visit UCR, you rugged individualist, you!
1. General ("Highlights and Hidden Treasures")
2. Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE)
3. College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS)
4. College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS)
Group Tours, Schedule a Visit
Groups of ten or more are welcomed to arrange a visit in advance by completing and submitting the Group Visit Request Form. Click here to download Form. (PDF).
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What's included?
Group visits can include a guided walking campus tour, residence hall tour, admissions and university life presentation, special interest presentations and dining on campus. Each option lasts approximately one hour. An arrival time of 9 am or 1 pm is recommended for groups considering two or more of the above options. And yes, it's all FREE and arranged by our office for you. We require that you bring 1 chaperone for each 10 students and submit your requests at least three weeks in advance.
All groups visiting are encouraged to contact the Campus Tours Office to arrange a date and time that accommodates the needs of the group. Groups visiting on their own and/or planning a self-guided visit, are required to notify the Campus Tour Office of their visit and submit insurance indemnification certificate from their respective school district.
Elementary/Middle School Group Tours
Spring recruitment is our busiest time of year. Our office gives extensive tours to newly-admitted students and their families during this period. For this reason, we are unable to accommodate visits for Elementary and Middle School groups during this time. Elementary and Middle School tours resume in July.
Contact Us
Feel free to e-mail us any questions or comments about your Group Visit Experience at tour@ucr.edu. Your feedback is very important to us.
Stay Overnight
Through the HOST Program, prospective undergraduates can get a taste of UC Riverside life by attending class and staying overnight in the residence halls with UC Riverside students. Hosting is offered October though April. Contact the HOST Program to complete your reservation at (951) 827-5471.
Virtual Tour
Take a Virtual Tour of UC Riverside! Click here and see for yourself why you should choose UC Riverside!
Directions to UC Riverside
The University address is 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA. 92507. UC Riverside is located off the 60/215 freeway. Exit at University Avenue and turn left. There may be a fee for parking.
For a print-friendly directions to UC Riverside click here
For a print-friendly map of UC Riverside click here
Parking
Parking permits are required. We recommend you purchase an all day parking permit of $7.00 at the Kiosk on West Campus Drive (See directions above). Lot 1 also has Pay-by-Space which allows you to pay for one hour at a time.