 Nestled along the Pacific Ocean on 1,200 acres of coastal woodland, UCSD is a powerful magnet for those seeking a fresh, next-generation approach to education and research. Since its founding four decades ago, UCSD—one of the ten campuses in the world-renowned University of California system—has rapidly achieved the status as one of the top institutions in the nation for higher education and research.
Approximately 20,000 undergraduates and 3,700 graduate students and attend UCSD, pursing degrees in 80 academic fields. The university is highly committed to cultivating an intellectual atmosphere where students from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds excel academically. UCSD conducts extensive outreach and retention activities to ensure that students from all groups are provided opportunities and are supported in the academic community. Diversity is an essential component of the university.
Academic Rankings
The National Research Council ranks UCSD 10th in the nation in the quality of its faculty and graduate programs. (The top ten, in rank order, are: UC Berkeley, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, CalTech, Yale, Chicago, Cornell and UCSD.) The NRC ranks oceanography and neurosciences 1st in the nation.
UCSD ranks 7th in the nation in National Academy of Sciences membership. (The top ten, in rank order, are: Harvard, UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, CalTech, UCSD, Yale, Chicago and Cornell.)
U.S. News and World Report in its 2006 America's Best College guide, ranks UCSD as 7th best public university in the nation. (In rank order, the top ten publics are UC Berkeley; U of Virginia; UCLA; U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; College of William & Mary; UCSD; U of Wisconsin, Madison; Georgia Institute of Technology, and UC Irvine.)
A 2005 U.S. News and World Report survey of graduate programs ranks the Jacobs School of Engineering 12th in the nation among public engineering schools and the School of Medicine as 14th among medical schools with a research focus, and 7th among primary care medical schools. In Master of Fine Arts programs, UCSD's multimedia/visual communications program ranked 6th in the nation. The most recent US News rankings also place these programs in the nation's top 10: Theatre and Dance (3rd); Bioengineering (3rd); Political Science (7th); Cellular and Developmental Biology (8th); Biochemistry (9th); Molecular Biology (10th), and Neurosciences (10th).
Newsweek named UCSD the "hottest" school for science in the nation in a 2006 report developed by Newsweek and the 2006 Kaplan/Newsweek College Guide.
A 2005 academic ranking of world universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University lists UCSD as 13th among 1,000 international institutions ranked.
The Washington Monthly 2006 rankings, based on "What Colleges Are Doing for the Country," ranks UCSD in 8th place. (In order, the top ten are MIT, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Stanford, Penn State, Texas A&M, UCSD, U of Pennsylvania and U of Michigan.)
The Princeton Review cites UCSD as one of 77 institutions nationwide to be selected for inclusion in the 2004 (and first) edition of America's Best Value Colleges.
Research Impact
UCSD's annual research funding is $627 million. The National Science Foundation ranks UCSD 5th in the nation in federal R&D expenditures. (The top ten are: Johns Hopkins; U of Washington; U of Michigan; Stanford; U of Pennsylvania; UCSD; Columbia; UCLA; MIT and Harvard.)
The Institute for Scientific Information 2003 ranks UCSD 3rd in the world in terms of its 'citation impact' in science and social science. ISI also ranks UCSD 5th in the world for the most cited molecular biology and genetic research papers, and 2nd in the nation for the most influential research in chemistry.
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Current Faculty Honors
Nobel Prize: George E. Palade, 1974, physiology/medicine; Renato Dulbecco, 1975, physiology/medicine; Harry Markowitz, 1990, economics; Paul Crutzen, 1995, chemistry; Mario J. Molina, 1995, chemistry; Sydney Brenner, 2002, medicine; Clive W.J. Granger and Robert F. Engle, 2003, economics.
Pulitzer Prize: Roger Reynolds (1989) Music.
Fields Medal: Professor of mathematics Efim Zelmanov.
Balzan Prize: Freeman Gilbert, SIO professor (1990), and Wolfgang Berger, SIO professor (1993).
National Medal of Science: Astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge and oceanographer Walter Munk (1985); physician/scientist George Palade (1986); nuclear physicist Marshall N. Rosenbluth (1998); bioengineer Yuan-Chen Fung (2000), and oceanographer Charles D. Keeling (2002).
National Humanities Medal: Latin American history scholar Ramon Eduardo Ruiz (1998).
Kyoto Prize: Oceanographer Walter Munk (1999).
Enrico Fermi Award: Physicist Herbert F. York (2000).
MacArthur Foundation Awards: Guillermo Algaze, anthropology; Patricia Churchland, philosophy; Ramon Gutierrez, history and ethnic studies; Edwin Hutchins, cognitive science; Russell Lande, biology; George Lewis, music; Michael Schudson, communications; and Emily Thompson, history. |
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