ABOUT MES A COL LEGE
Among the largest community colleges in California and the nation, San Diego Mesa College is a fully accredited, two-year college offering 160 Associate Degree and certificate programs. The college’s excellent academic and career preparation programs cover a wide range of disciplines, making Mesa an important economic development catalyst and the number-one transfer institution in San Diego. Mesa’s premier programs include six programs in the allied health fields, fashion design, architecture, multimedia, hospitality and event management, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), American Sign Language, and interior design.
San Diego Mesa College Rita M. Cepeda, Ed.D., President 7250 Mesa College Drive, San Diego, CA 92111-4998 619-388-2600 • www.sdmesa.edu
San Diego Community College District 3375 Camino del Rio South San Diego, CA 92108-3883 • 619-388-6500
Board of Trustees: Marty Block, J.D., Rich Grosch, San Diego Mesa College Maria Nieto Senour, Ph.D., Bill Schwandt, Peter Zschiesche San Diego Mesa College Constance M. Carroll, Ph.D., Chancellor International Student Admissions Information www.sdmesa.edu/international www.sdmesa.edu/international Degree and Certificate Programs INTERNATIONAL NJ 08541 USA. Phone: 1-800-241-5393 housing, apartment rentals are GENERAL INFORMATION Health Insurance and Insurance Fax:(609) 683-2667 www.ets.org usually available in the vicinity of If admitted, you are expected to present Offered a t Me sa Colle ge STUDENT ADMIS SIONS Students must request that the Mesa College. Rental fees, food, Before you complete the International satisfactory evidence of an active health Educational Testing Service office send utilities, and personal expenses are INFORMATION Student Application, please read and accident insurance policy for the scores directly to San Diego Mesa estimated at about $990 per month Accounting carefully the following information: coverage while you are residing in Phone: (619) 388-2717 FAX: (619) 388-2960 College, Code number 4735. or approximately $11,880 per the United States. American Sign Language school year. Animal Health Technology Anthropology San Diego Mesa College welcomes your Academic Achievement Academic Standards You will be required to provide proof application as an international student. Graduation from a secondary school Financial Aid is NOT available for of health insurance that will pay a Architecture/Landscape Architecture international students. • As an F-1 visa student you must Art/Fine Arts Our staff will make every effort to that is equivalent to an American enroll in a full-time program of study, United States provider. If you have not assist you. Our admission requirements high school with readiness to enter obtained health insurance at the time of Biology Health Certification complete a minimum of 12 units each Black Studies conform to the regulations of the US an institution of higher learning such semester and maintain a minimum of the orientation, you will be able Government for issuing F-1 student visas. as college or university is required. Students are required to be in to do so then. Building Construction Technology good general health and free of 2.0 GPA. Business Please send all official transcripts, If you have obtained a GED (General • A mandatory three-day enrollment certificates, official test scores, and other Equivalency Diploma), you must communicable diseases. The health IT IS THE APPLICANT S Chemistry examination report completed by a orientation for all international documents required for admission with have passed with a minimum score RESPONSIBILITY to read and Chicano Studies physician must be submitted with your students will be held about three your application to: of 45. Official records and academic understand the requirements and Child Development application. The medical examination weeks prior to the start of the semester. Computer Business Technology transcripts not in English must be Spring semester orientation will be carefully follow the directions. Please San Diego Mesa College must certify against polio, diphtheria, Computer and Information Sciences accompanied by a notarized English held the second week of January understand that no action will be taken International Student measles, rubella, tetanus, and must Consumer Studies translation and submitted at the and Fall semester orientation will unless all necessary documentation Admissions, I-410 provide tuberculosis clearance. Culinary Arts/Culinary Management time of application. Please note that be held the second week of August. is on file in the International Student 7250 Mesa College Drive photocopies are not accepted. Admissions Office by the stated Dental Assisting Certification and Applicants who are not able to attend San Diego, CA 92111-4998 deadlines. If you have questions in Destination and Events Management Release of Information the orientation in its entirety are Dramatic Arts Application completing this form, please write or encouraged to apply at a later date. Engineering APPLICATION DEADLINES Complete the enclosed two-page (page 2 of the application) call the office at (619) 388-2717, Fax (619) To allow time for the exchange of For your protection and because of English international student application in full, Academic Programs 388-2960. correspondence, processing, and U.S. Privacy Act considerations, we ask Escrow attaching a passport size photo to the • San Diego Mesa College does NOT evaluation of your academic records, that you sign a Release of Information Fashion top right corner of the application and offer an intensive program of English all admissions requirements must be Statement prior to release of personal Adrienne Aeria Dines French all other documents including a as a Second Language. completed by: information to third parties. International Student Advisor Geographic Information Systems non-refundable deposit of $100 (one • San Diego Mesa College offers lower June 1 Fall Semester Phone (619) 388-2717 Geography hundred dollars) in U.S. or international division course work towards a two- November 1 Spring Semester Transfer Fax (619) 388-2983 Health Information Technology money order. For credit card payment, year Associate Degree, and preparation (F1 students currently attending E-mail [email protected] History please complete the payment form for a four-year Bachelor’s Degree or ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS Hotel Management included in the application. Personal other US institutions) graduate program. PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITE English Proficiency Transfer Clearance: Ivonne Alvarez Interior Design Checks ARE NOT accepted. • If you are already in possession of To be accepted as an international If you are presently attending another Director/Admissions & Records Japanese a Baccalaureate or college degree or student at San Diego Mesa College, U.S. educational institution and Phone (619) 388-2717 www.sdmesa.edu/international Liberal Arts Financial Resources the equivalent (completion of about 60 you must be able to speak, read, write, are seeking a transfer to San Diego Fax (619) 388-2960 Marketing and Estimated Expenses units) you may be considered beyond and understand English at a level that Mesa College you must submit the E-mail [email protected] Mathematics Complete the Confidential Financial the course offerings of San Diego Mesa will allow you to successfully complete completed Transfer Clearance form in Medical Assisting Statement to show proof that you have College and are encouraged to apply college work. To verify your level, we your application materials. This form Music sufficient financial support to pay for to a four-year college or university. require that you pass the International is to be completed by the Designated Nutrition your a) tuition and b) living expenses Exceptions may be granted for students TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign School Official (DSO) at your current Philosophy for one year. We estimate this cost at declaring new majors or needing Language) with a minimum score of institution certifying that you are in Physical Education approximately $17,500.00 (seventeen additional lower division courses. 61 on the Internet version (iBT), 173 on good standing. Physical Therapist Assistant the computerized version (CBT) or 500 thousand five hundred dollars). Physics on the paper version test BEFORE THE a) Tuition: Non-resident tuition Transcripts: College Catalog Political Science STATED DEADLINES listed above. and fees for international students You must request official transcripts You may obtain a college catalog Psychology are $199.00 per unit. Since you be sent directly to our office from your containing course descriptions by Radiologic Technology This requirement is waived if you must enroll in a minimum of 12 present institution and any other U.S. writing to the Mesa College Bookstore Real Estate completed a college level English units each semester to maintain institutions that you have attended. at our address, enclosing a Selected Studies composition course in the United States, your F-1 visa status, you should check/money order. Catalogs are Sociology or if you come from a country that has be prepared to pay a minimum Immigration Documents: mailed within the United States for To verify your current or transfer status, if Spanish English as the primary language in the tuition of $2,404.00 per semester. If $8.50. Catalogs are mailed outside the Speech Communication educational system. you wish to also attend next year s you are already in the United States, you United States for $17.00. summer session, an additional must submit to our office, immigration An Associate Degree option is also available to students who plan to TOEFL information, registration forms, $1,204.00 should be included in information including copies of the visa transfer to a university after completing lower division pre-major and and score reports may be obtained from: your estimations. page of the passport, I-94 form, and I-20 general education at Mesa College. EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE b) Living expenses: Although there (page 1 & 3) if applicable. Associate Degree and/or Certificate of Achievement available. (ETS) Rosedale Road MS-49N Princeton, are no provisions for on-campus Not all courses are scheduled each semester.