Alumni Email FAQ

• UPDATE 5/16/2023 - @eng.ucsd.edu Account Closures

• Notification sent out to all Jacobs School of Engineering alumni who currently utilize an @eng.ucsd.edu Google account, but OEC has no record of active affiliation with a campus department.

Due to changes in licensing and storage offerings from Google, we are no longer able to extend access to these Google accounts for Alumni.

• Alumni @eng.ucsd.edu Google accounts will remain open through: November 30, 2023

• If you would still like to receive email that is sent to your @eng.ucsd.edu email address, the available path forward is a two-step process:

1. Sign up for the Alumni Association’s Email For Life service, here: https://alumni.ucsd.edu/perks/email-for-life.html

2. Sign up for @eng.ucsd.edu Permanent Forward service, via the email notification from google-transition@eng.ucsd.edu

• OEC will send out monthly reminders regarding this closure.

• NOTE: If you are still actively affiliated with a UC San Diego department that would like to sponsor a UCSD account for you, please contact that department to work out sponsorship details, and then they can request an account for you via their own processes.

• Student @eng.ucsd.edu Google Workspace accounts:

The current policy for alumni @eng.ucsd.edu accounts is that the student can retain access to them for one year post-graduation. 

However, this policy is in flux and there are @eng.ucsd.edu accounts that we have not closed, while we determine a new policy. 

When we do finalize a policy you may be asked to change your @eng.ucsd.edu username, or even close the @eng.ucsd.edu account, after the year is up.

• Student @ucsd.edu Google Workspace accounts:

  • • Redirect UC San Diego Student Email to Another Address

      • "accounts will be suspended the second consecutive quarter a student is not enrolled"

      • https://ucsdservicedesk.service-now.com/its?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0030447&sys_kb_id=43217789dbdcc0186576785e0f9619ce

    • Things To Do Before Your Student Accounts Close

      • https://ucsdservicedesk.service-now.com/its?id=kb_article_view&sys_kb_id=09343c72db57ccd06576785e0f961948

• If you are looking for a permanent UCSD email alias, please see the Alumni Email for Life program that UCSD provides: https://alumni.ucsd.edu/perks/email-for-life.html

• If you want to transfer your data from your @eng.ucsd.edu or @ucsd.edu Google account to a personal @gmail.com account, you can log into your UCSD account and run this utility: https://takeout.google.com/transfer

• If you want to forward your @eng.ucsd.edu email somewhere else, you can set that in your own @eng.ucsd.edu account, using these instructions: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10957

• If you graduate and would like to voluntarily close out your @eng.ucsd.edu account, you can contact us at oec@ucsd.edu to request the closure. 

updated 5/16/2023