How to get your first ID Card

Students must submit their ID photo via the online Photo Tool. 

Undergraduate Students Living on Campus
Your first ID card will be distributed to you during move-in.

Undergraduate Students Living Off Campus

Our office will email you detailed instructions about the ID card distribution event, where you can sign up to pick up your card during the first two weeks of the Fall quarter (Week 0 and Week 1). After the distribution event, you may request your first ID card by completing the ID Card Request Form. Once your request is processed, you will receive an email notifying you that your ID card is ready for pick-up during business hours.

Students must submit their ID photo via the online Photo Tool. 

Our office partners with many graduate departments to coordinate ID card distribution for graduate students. 

Graduate students - please first contact your graduate coordinator (or review any communication that they send) to determine if they will be distributing ID cards. If they are not, you will need to wait until the start of the Fall quarter to pick up your ID card during our distribution event. Our office will send an email with details about this event.

If you miss the distribution event, then you can submit an ID Card Request Form to request your first student ID card. Once your request is processed, you will receive an email notification when your ID card is ready for pick-up during business hours.

Note: Visiting graduate students may qualify for an Affiliate ID Card.

School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences students receive an official student One Card from our office. Please follow these important steps below. 

• Attend your orientation events as scheduled to take your professional/white lab coat photos 
• These photos will be sent to the Campus Cards Office for processing 
• The Campus Cards Office will generate and print ID cards for all students, and then distribute them directly to your program's coordinator within two business days of receiving the photos
• Your program coordinator will then arrange to distribute the ID cards to each student
• Please do not visit our office, nor request your ID card from our office, as we will not be able to issue you an ID card. If you need your ID card prior to orientation, please ask your coordinator to make separate arrangements with our office. 

Students must submit their ID photo via the online Photo Tool. 

Students who are only attending summer session at UCSD should first find out from their program coordinator how they will receive their ID cards (i.e. from the Campus Cards Office or from their coordinator). 

If their program will not be distributing ID cards, you can request your ID card by filling out an ID Card Request Form.

Before going to the Campus Cards Office (map), cross-registered students will need to request their student PID from the Registrar's Office, which is located on the 2nd floor of the same building as the Campus Cards Office (Student Services Center), as you will need your student PID before you can get your student ID card.

Once you have your student PID, you can request an ID card by filling out an ID Card Request Form. Please note that you will need to submit your photo via our online photo tool. 

The Campus Cards Office now prints ID cards for UCSD Division of Extended Studies students! However, Extended Studies students will not receive their ID card directly from the Campus Cards Office. As a result, please do not visit our office to request an ID card.

Instead, Extended Studies students will receive their ID card from a program coordinator or other staff person. For more questions about how/when you will receive your first Extended Studies student ID card, or if you need to replace an ID card, please contact Extended Studies directly, or visit their webpage for more information.