Deadlines

Following is a listing of UC Merced campus-specific application deadlines for most programs unless specified in the program-specific list below. If you are applying to a program outside of the UC Education Abroad Program (EAP) you will need to check with the study abroad provider's deadlines too.

Upcoming Deadlines:

Term

Year

UCM Deadline

Campus Decision Date

IOP Fall

2026

05/07/2026

Rolling admission **

All Programs

IOP Year (academic)

2026-2027

05/07/2026

Rolling admission **

All Programs

IOP Spring

2027

09/07/2026

Rolling admission **

All Programs

** Applicants will be immediately notified of acceptance into this program and be able to complete post-decision materials prior to the term's application deadline.

Past Deadlines:

Term

Year

UCM Deadline

Campus Decision Date

EAP Winter

2026

07/30/2025

Rolling admission **

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EAP Spring

2026

08/13/2025

Rolling admission **

Click here for exceptions

Active Past Deadline Exceptions
EAP Spring, 2026 Exceptions by Program	UCM Deadline	Campus Decision Date
*UCEAP - CANADA - Univ. of British Columbia	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CHINA - Fudan Univ.	08/27/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CHINA - Peking Univ.	08/27/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CHINA - Tsinghua Univ.	08/27/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - COSTA RICA - Tropical Biology and Conservation	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - DENMARK - Aarhus Univ.	08/27/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - EGYPT - The American Univ. in Cairo	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - FRANCE + UNITED KINGDOM - Global Cities Urban Realities	09/24/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - FRANCE - Field Research & Internship, Paris	07/02/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - FRANCE - Field Research & Internship, Strasbourg	07/02/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - FRANCE - French in Bordeaux	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - FRANCE - Sciences Po Paris	07/16/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - FRANCE - Social Justice and Activism	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - FRANCE - Univ. of Bordeaux	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - GERMANY - Berlin Experience	09/10/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - GERMANY - Free Univ. Berlin	08/27/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - GERMANY - Technical Univ. Berlin	08/27/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - HONG KONG - Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - HONG KONG - Univ. of Hong Kong (HKU)	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - ICELAND - Univ. of Iceland	07/02/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - ITALY - Art, Food and Society	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - ITALY - Made in Italy, Rome	09/24/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - ITALY - Psychology & Cognitive Science, Padua	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - ITALY - Univ. of Bologna	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JAPAN - Engineering & Science	07/16/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JAPAN - Global Studies, Japan	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JAPAN - International Christian Univ.	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JAPAN - Japanese in Kyoto	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JORDAN - Advanced Arabic Language, Amman	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JORDAN - Middle East Studies, Amman	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - KOREA - Korea Univ.	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - KOREA - Seoul National Univ.	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - KOREA - Yonsei Univ.	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - MEXICO - National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM)	07/16/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - MEXICO - Tec de Monterrey	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - NETHERLANDS - Business & Economics, Maastricht	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - NETHERLANDS - Univ. College Maastricht	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - NETHERLANDS - Univ. College Utrecht	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - NETHERLANDS - Utrecht Univ.	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - NETHERLANDS - Wageningen Univ.	07/30/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SINGAPORE - National Univ. of Singapore	07/16/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SINGAPORE - Singapore Univ. of Technology and Design	06/18/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - Business and Economics in Barcelona	06/18/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - Univ. of Alicante	06/18/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SWITZERLAND - Global Studies, Geneva	06/18/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - TAIWAN - National Taiwan Univ.	08/27/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - THAILAND - Mahidol Univ.	07/16/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - THAILAND - Thammasat Univ.	07/16/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - Business and Entrepreneurship in London	06/18/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - Imperial College London	07/02/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of Bristol	06/18/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of London, Royal Holloway	06/18/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of Manchester	06/18/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of Sussex	06/18/2025	Rolling admission **

EAP Year (calendar)

2026

08/13/2025

Rolling admission **

All Programs

IOP Spring

2026

09/08/2025

Rolling admission **

All Programs

EAP Summer

2026

02/19/2026

Rolling admission **

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Active Past Deadline Exceptions
EAP Summer, 2026 Exceptions by Program	UCM Deadline	Campus Decision Date
*UCEAP - AUSTRALIA - Summer Global Internship, Sydney	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CHINA - Chinese in Beijing	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CHINA - Shanghai Summer	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CHINA - Summer Global Internship, Shanghai	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CZECHIA - Summer Internship, Prague	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - DENMARK - Copenhagen Business School Summer	01/22/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - GERMANY - Summer Global Internship, Berlin	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - GERMANY - Technical Univ. Summer	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - HONG KONG - Hong Kong Summer, CUHK	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - IRELAND - Dublin Summer Chemistry	03/15/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JAPAN - Japanese in Osaka	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JAPAN - Japanese in Tokyo	01/22/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JAPAN - STEM Research in Tohoku	12/04/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JAPAN - Summer Global Internship, Tokyo	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - KOREA - Summer Global Internship, Seoul	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - KOREA - Yonsei Univ. Summer	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - MEXICO - Community and Global Health in Mexico	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - MEXICO - Contemporary Mexico, UC Center, Mexico City	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - NORWAY - Oslo Summer	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SINGAPORE - Field Studies in Biodiversity	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SINGAPORE - Summer Global Internship, Singapore	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SOUTH AFRICA - Summer Global Internship, Cape Town	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - Chemistry Research in Alicante	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - Data Science in Madrid	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - Society and Culture in Madrid	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - UAB Barcelona Summer School	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - UB Barcelona Summer	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - UPF Barcelona International Summer School	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - TAIWAN - Chinese in Taipei	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - TAIWAN - Research in Taipei	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - THAILAND - Summer Internship, Bangkok	01/22/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - Glasgow Summer Physics	03/15/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - Summer at London School of Economics	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - Summer at University College London	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - Summer in Cambridge	01/22/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - Summer in Oxford, Exeter College	12/04/2025	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - Summer in Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall	01/22/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - Summer in Sussex	03/15/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - Sussex Summer Physics	03/15/2026	Rolling admission **

EAP Year (academic)

2026-2027

02/19/2026

Rolling admission **

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Active Past Deadline Exceptions
EAP Year (academic), 1 Exceptions by Program	UCM Deadline	Campus Decision Date
*UCEAP - CHINA - Peking Univ.	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CZECHIA - Central European Studies	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - DENMARK - Aarhus Univ.	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - EGYPT - The American Univ. in Cairo	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - FRANCE - Univ. of Bordeaux	03/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - ICELAND - Univ. of Iceland	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - IRELAND - Trinity College Dublin	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - IRELAND - Univ. College Cork	03/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - IRELAND - Univ. College Dublin	03/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - IRELAND - Univ. of Galway	03/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JAPAN - Engineering & Science	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JAPAN - International Christian Univ.	01/22/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JAPAN - Keio Univ.	01/22/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - MEXICO - Leadership in Social Justice and Public Policy, Mexico City & Sacramento	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - MEXICO - National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM)	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - MEXICO - Tec de Monterrey	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - NORWAY - Univ. of Oslo	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SINGAPORE - National Univ. of Singapore	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - Carlos III Univ. of Madrid	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - Complutense Univ. of Madrid	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - Univ. of Alicante	01/22/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - Univ. of Barcelona	01/08/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - TAIWAN - National Taiwan Univ.	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - THAILAND - Mahidol Univ.	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - THAILAND - Thammasat Univ.	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of Bristol	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of Glasgow	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of London, Royal Holloway	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of Manchester	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of Westminster	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **

IOP Summer

2026

02/23/2026

Rolling admission **

All Programs

UC Summer Abroad

2026

02/28/2026

Rolling admission **

All Programs

EAP Fall

2026

03/19/2026

Rolling admission **

Click here for exceptions

Active Past Deadline Exceptions
EAP Fall, 2026 Exceptions by Program	UCM Deadline	Campus Decision Date
*UCEAP - AUSTRALIA - Australian National Univ.	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - BARBADOS - Univ. of the West Indies	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - BRAZIL - Pontifical Catholic Univ of Rio de Janeiro	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CANADA - Univ. of British Columbia	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CHILE - Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Chile	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CHILE - Socio-Ecological Sustainability	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CHILE - Univ. of Chile	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CHINA - Fudan Univ.	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - CZECHIA - Central European Studies	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - DENMARK - Aarhus Univ.	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - EGYPT - The American Univ. in Cairo	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - FRANCE - Field Research & Internship, Paris	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - FRANCE - Field Research & Internship, Strasbourg	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - GERMANY - Berlin Experience	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - GERMANY - Free Univ. Berlin	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - GERMANY - Humboldt Univ. Berlin	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - GERMANY - Technical Univ. Berlin	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - ICELAND - Univ. of Iceland	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JORDAN - Advanced Arabic Language, Amman	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - JORDAN - Middle East Studies, Amman	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - KOREA - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - KOREA - Seoul National Univ.	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - MEXICO - Field Research in Mexico	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - MEXICO - National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM)	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - MEXICO - Tec de Monterrey	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - NETHERLANDS - Business & Economics, Maastricht	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - NETHERLANDS - Univ. College Maastricht	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - NETHERLANDS - Wageningen Univ.	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - NORWAY - Univ. of Oslo	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SINGAPORE - Nanyang Technical Univ.	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SINGAPORE - National Univ. of Singapore	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SOUTH AFRICA - Univ. of Cape Town	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - Business and Economics in Barcelona	01/22/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - SPAIN - Univ. of Alicante	01/22/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - TAIWAN - National Taiwan Univ.	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - THAILAND - Mahidol Univ.	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - THAILAND - Thammasat Univ.	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - London's Calling	03/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of Bristol	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of London, Royal Holloway	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of Manchester	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of Sussex	02/19/2026	Rolling admission **
*UCEAP - UNITED KINGDOM - University of Westminster	02/05/2026	Rolling admission **

Indicates deadlines that have passed. Students may submit the Extension Request Form for a possible extension.

** Applicants will be immediately notified of acceptance into this program and be able to complete post-decision materials prior to the term's application deadline.