Alumni email service

Alumni who graduated in 2025 or after will be able to use the email address assigned when they were students. Student accounts are active for 6 months from the last date of enrollment. During the transition period between accounts, any Google account data they wish to retain must be removed prior to the student email account being decommissioned. Data will no longer exist once that process is completed. All data saved in a Google Drive must be transferred to a personal drive.

Alumni whose student email accounts are already decommissioned may request an account by submitting the form above. IT Services will assign an email address that is as close to the user’s first initial, last name as they are able. No alias will be accepted by the University, requests for specific email addresses will not be granted.

Alumni who have not previously had a campus student email account may request an account by submitting our request form online. IT Services will assign an email address that is as close to the user’s first initial, last name as they are able. No alias will be accepted by the University, requests for specific email addresses will not be granted.

A graduate with any other active campus affiliation (e.g., postdoc, employee, department guest) does not qualify for the alumni email service until their other affiliation ends.

The alumni email service offers users a Gmail-hosted mailbox with an @ucsd.edu domain email address, send/receive capabilities and 1GB of storage. It is offered to UC San Diego alumni at no charge.

• Due to recent email security policy changes by Google and Microsoft concerning antispoofing protocols have impacted the functionality of email forwarding services like email for life. With this in mind, the Alumni Email for Life service was shifted to the new Alumni Email Service.
• Alumni who were using the previous email forwarding service may request to participate in the new alumni email service by submitting our request form online.

While the Gmail mailbox includes 1GB of storage and basic send/receive capabilities, it does not include additional Google Workspace features, nor is it guaranteed to be available indefinitely.

• Yes, you will have access to any public sites.
• No, if a site prompts to sign in using single sign on credentials, you will not have access to that site.

• As with all other UC San Diego email accounts, those participating in the alumni email service program are bound by University of California and UC San Diego electronic communications and acceptable use policies. Failure to comply may result in discontinuation of the user’s account without prior notice.
  • Users are only permitted to access the IT resources that they have been explicitly authorized to access and only for the purposes for which access authorization was granted.
  • Users granted access to an IT resource must use it responsibly and comply with applicable laws and policies; access may not be shared.
  • Incidental personal use must not burden the university with noticeable incremental costs, nor expose the university to appreciable risks.
  • Evidence of illegal activities or policy violations will be turned over to the appropriate authorities.
  • Violation of law or policy may result in revocation of access, suspension of accounts, disciplinary actions and prosecution.
  • We have the right to refuse to provide an email if we suspect fraud, identity theft or other illicit activities.

We also have the right to refuse to provide an email to any person who violates the University's conduct policy.

New graduates may request an alumni inbox 6 months after graduation. Requests to convert too early may cause recent graduates to lose access that a student account may otherwise grant.

A graduate who has another active campus affiliation (e.g., graduate student, postdoc, employee, department sponsored guest) does not qualify for the alumni email service until prior affiliation ends.

Yes, you may qualify if you have graduated and are no longer a student, graduate or have an active campus affiliation.

However, you will receive a new email address with the @ucsd.edu domain. Department sponsored domains are property of the department and may not be used for Alumni. You will lose ALL access once the process is completed.

Due to the practice of reassigning email addresses to alumni who graduated on or before 2017, alumni will not necessarily receive their previous student email address. IT will assign a new email address that is as close to the user’s first initial, last name as they are able.