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University of California, San Diego

December 06, 2023

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For the public California State University university, see San Diego State University. For the private university, see University of San Diego.

The University of California, San Diego[10] (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD), is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is the southernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California, and offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, enrolling 33,096 undergraduate and 9,872 graduate students. The university occupies 2,178 acres (881 ha) near the coast of the Pacific Ocean, with the main campus resting on approximately 1,152 acres (466 ha).[11]

University of California, San Diego
MottoFiat lux (Latin)
Motto in English
"Let there be light"
TypePublic land-grant research university
EstablishedNovember 18, 1960; 63 years ago (1960-11-18)[1]
Parent institution
University of California
AccreditationWSCUC
Academic affiliations
Endowment$3 billion (2023)[2]
ChancellorPradeep Khosla[3]
Academic staff
10,915 (October 2020)[4]
Administrative staff
23,461 (October 2020)[4]
Students42,968 (Fall 2022)[5]
Undergraduates33,096 (Fall 2022)[5]
Postgraduates9,872 (Fall 2022)[5]
Location
La Jolla, San Diego
,
California
,
United States

32°52′48″N 117°14′02″W / 32.8801°N 117.234°W / 32.8801; -117.234
CampusLarge city[7], 2,178 acres (881 ha)[6]
NewspaperThe Guardian
ColorsUC San Diego Navy, Blue, Yellow, and Gold[8]
       
NicknameTritons
Sporting affiliations
MascotKing Triton[9]
Websitewww.ucsd.edu

UC San Diego consists of twelve undergraduate, graduate and professional schools as well as eight undergraduate residential colleges.[12][13] The university operates 19 organized research units as well as eight School of Medicine research units, six research centers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and two multi-campus initiatives.[14] UC San Diego is also closely affiliated with several regional research centers, such as the Salk Institute, the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, and the Scripps Research Institute. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[15] According to the National Science Foundation, UC San Diego spent $1.403 billion on research and development in fiscal year 2021, giving it the second-highest R&D spending in the University of California system and the 7th-highest in the nation.[16]

UC San Diego has been considered a Public Ivy. UC San Diego faculty, researchers, and alumni have won 27 Nobel Prizes as well as three Fields Medals, eight National Medals of Science, eight MacArthur Fellowships, and three Pulitzer Prizes.[17][18][19][20][21] Additionally, of the current faculty, 29 have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering,[18] 70 to the National Academy of Sciences,[22] 45 to the Institute of Medicine and 110 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[17]

History edit

When the Regents of the University of California originally authorized the San Diego campus in 1956, it was planned to be a graduate and research institution, providing instruction in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering.[23] Local citizens supported the idea, voting the same year to transfer to the university 59 acres (24 ha) of mesa land on the coast near the preexisting Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The Regents requested an additional gift of 550 acres (220 ha) of undeveloped mesa land northeast of Scripps, as well as 500 acres (200 ha) on the former site of Camp Matthews from the federal government, but Roger Revelle, then director of Scripps Institution and main advocate for establishing the new campus, jeopardized the site selection by exposing the La Jolla community's exclusive real estate business practices, which were antagonistic to minority racial and religious groups. This outraged local conservatives, as well as Regent Edwin W. Pauley.[23] Revelle also got involved in a bitter debate with Jonas Salk over where Salk's proposed institute would be located relative to the new campus.[23]

 
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego

UC President Clark Kerr satisfied San Diego city donors by changing the proposed name from University of California, La Jolla, to University of California, San Diego.[1][23] The city voted to agree to its part of the deal in 1958, and the UC Board of Regents approved construction of the new campus in 1960. Because Revelle's tactless approaches to the clashes with Pauley and Salk had damaged his reputation with the Board of Regents, Kerr realized he could not nominate Revelle as the campus's first chancellor. Revelle's nomination would have become "an angry and drawn-out affair" and greatly detracted from the campus's future development. Herbert York, first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was selected instead.[23] York planned the main campus according to the "Oxbridge" model, relying on many of Revelle's ideas.[24]

According to Kerr, "San Diego always asked for the best," though this created much friction throughout the UC system, including with Kerr himself, because UC San Diego often seemed to be "asking for too much and too fast."[23] Kerr attributed UC San Diego's "special personality" to Scripps, which for over five decades had been the most isolated UC unit in every sense: geographically, financially, and institutionally.[23] It was a great shock to the Scripps community to learn that Scripps was now expected to become the nucleus of a new UC campus and would now be the object of far more attention from both the university administration in Berkeley and the state government in Sacramento.[23]

UC San Diego was the first general campus of the University of California to be designed "from the top down" in terms of research emphasis.[25] Local leaders disagreed on whether the new school should be a technical research institute or a more broadly based school that included undergraduates as well. John Jay Hopkins of General Dynamics Corporation pledged one million dollars for the former while the City Council offered free land for the latter.[24][26] The original authorization for the San Diego campus given by the UC Regents in 1956 approved a "graduate program in science and technology" that included undergraduate programs, a compromise that won both the support of General Dynamics and the city voters' approval.[24]

Nobel laureate Harold Urey, a physicist from the University of Chicago, James R. Arnold a pioneering cosmochemist, the and Hans Suess, who had published the first paper on the greenhouse effect with Revelle in the previous year, were early recruits to the faculty in 1958.[26] Maria Goeppert-Mayer, later the second female Nobel laureate in physics, was appointed professor of physics in 1960.[26] The graduate division of the school opened in 1960 with 20 faculty in residence, with instruction offered in the fields of physics, biology, chemistry, and earth science. Before the main campus completed construction, classes were held in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.[24]

By 1963, new facilities on the mesa had been finished for the School of Science and Engineering, and new buildings were under construction for Social Sciences and Humanities. Ten additional faculty in those disciplines were hired, and the whole site was designated the First College of the new campus (it was later renamed after Roger Revelle). York resigned as chancellor that year and was replaced by John Semple Galbraith.[26] The undergraduate program accepted its first class of 181 freshman at Revelle College in 1964.[24][27] Second College was founded in 1964, on the land deeded by the federal government, and named after environmentalist John Muir two years later.[28] The School of Medicine also accepted its first students in 1966.[26]

Political theorist Herbert Marcuse joined the faculty in 1965. A champion of the New Left, he reportedly was the first protester to occupy the administration building in a demonstration organized by his student, political activist Angela Davis.[29] The American Legion offered to buy out the remainder of Marcuse's contract for $20,000; the Regents censured Chancellor William J. McGill for defending Marcuse on the basis of academic freedom, but further action was averted after local leaders expressed support for Marcuse.[26] Further student unrest was felt at the university, as the United States increased its involvement in the Vietnam War during the mid-1960s, when a student raised a Viet Minh flag over the campus.[24] Protests escalated as the war continued and were only exacerbated after the National Guard fired on student protesters at Kent State University in 1970. Over 200 students occupied Urey Hall, with one student setting himself on fire in protest of the war.[24][30]

Early research activity and faculty quality, notably in the sciences, was integral to shaping the focus and culture of the university. Even before UC San Diego had its own campus, faculty recruits had already made significant research breakthroughs, such as the Keeling Curve, a graph that plots rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and was the first significant evidence for global climate change; the Kohn–Sham equations, used to investigate particular atoms and molecules in quantum chemistry; and the Miller–Urey experiment, which gave birth to the field of prebiotic chemistry.[31][32][33]

Engineering, particularly computer science, became an important part of the university's academics as it matured. University researchers helped develop UCSD Pascal, an early machine-independent programming language that later heavily influenced Java;[34][35][36][37] the National Science Foundation Network, a precursor to the Internet; and the Network News Transfer Protocol during the late 1970s to 1980s.[38]

Under Richard C. Atkinson's leadership as chancellor from 1980 to 1995, the university strengthened its ties with the city of San Diego by encouraging technology transfer with developing companies, transforming San Diego into a world leader in technology-based industries. He oversaw a rapid expansion of the School of Engineering, later renamed after Qualcomm founder Irwin M. Jacobs, with the construction of the San Diego Supercomputer Center[39] and establishment of the computer science, electrical engineering, and bioengineering departments.[40] Private donations increased from $15 million to nearly $50 million annually, faculty expanded by nearly 50%, and enrollment doubled to about 18,000 students during his administration. By the end of his chancellorship, the quality of UC San Diego graduate programs was ranked 10th in the nation by the National Research Council.[41]

The university continued to undergo further expansion during the first decade of the new millennium with the establishment and construction of two new professional schools — the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Rady School of Management—and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, a research institute run jointly with UC Irvine. UC San Diego also reached two financial milestones during this time, becoming the first university in the western region to raise over $1 billion in its eight-year fundraising campaign in 2007[42] and also obtaining an additional $1 billion through research contracts and grants in a single fiscal year for the first time in 2010.[1] Despite this, due to the California budget crisis, the university loaned $40 million against its own assets in 2009 to offset a significant reduction in state educational appropriations.[43] The salary of Pradeep Khosla, who became chancellor in 2012, has been the subject of controversy amidst continued budget cuts and tuition increases.[3] In 2012, campus launched a 10-year, $2 billion fundraising campaign, which the campus completed 3 years early in 2019, making it the youngest university in the United States to have completed a $2 billion fundraiser.[44][45]

On November 27, 2017, the university announced it would leave its longtime athletic home of the California Collegiate Athletic Association, an NCAA Division II league, to begin a transition to Division I in 2020. It joined the Big West Conference, already home to four other UC campuses (Davis, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara). The university transitioned to NCAA Division I competition on July 1, 2020.[46] The transition period will run through the 2023–24 school year.[47]

Campus edit

 
Panorama of the Jacobs School of Engineering on Earl Warren College mall. From left to right: Geisel Library, Engineering Building Unit (EBU) I, the Powell-Focht Bioengineering Building, the Computer Science Building, and EBU II (visible through trees)
 
Geisel Library, named for Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss

UC San Diego is located in the residential neighborhood of La Jolla of northern San Diego, bordered by the communities of La Jolla Shores, Torrey Pines, and University City. The main campus consists of 761 buildings that occupy 1,152 acres (466 ha), with natural reserves covering about 889 acres (360 ha) and outlying facilities taking up the remaining area.[11] The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 5) passes through the campus and separates Jacobs Medical Center and Mesa apartment housing from the greater part of the university. The Preuss School, a college-preparatory charter school established and administered by UC San Diego, also lies on the eastern portion of the campus.[48]

Standing at the center of the university is the iconic Geisel Library, named after Dr. Seuss following a $20 million donation from his wife Audrey Geisel. Library Walk, a heavily traveled pathway leading from the library to Gilman Drive, lies adjacent or close to Price Center, Center Hall, International Center, and various student services buildings, including the Student Services Center and the Career Services building. The layout of the main campus centers on the library, which is roughly surrounded by the eight residential colleges of Revelle, Muir, Marshall, Warren, Roosevelt, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth, in addition to the School of Medicine. The eight colleges maintain separate housing facilities for their students and each college's buildings are differentiated by distinct architectural styles. As residential colleges were added while the university expanded, buildings in newer colleges were designed with styles that were starkly different from that of the original campus. The disparate architectural styles led Travel + Leisure, in its October 2013 issue, to name the university as one of the ugliest campuses in America, likening it to "a cupboard full of kitchen appliances whose function you can't quite fathom."[49]

 
Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute building

In addition to its academic and housing facilities, the campus features eucalyptus groves,[50] the Birch Aquarium and museum, and several major research centers. The Scripps Institution owns a sea port and several open ocean vessels for marine research.[51][52] Several large shake facilities, including the world record holding Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table, used for earthquake simulations, are also maintained by the university.[53]

The university has actively sought to reduce carbon emissions and energy usage on campus, earning a "gold" sustainability performance rating in the Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS) survey. It was also praised in The Princeton Review's Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2013 Edition for its strong commitment to sustainability in its academic offerings, campus infrastructure, activities and career preparation.[54]

Academic facilities edit

 
The Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center houses the Departments of Cardiology and Emergency Medicine at UC San Diego Health

When the campus opened in 1964, it consisted only of Revelle College and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The school's rapid increase in enrollment and opening to undergraduate students over its first decade spurred major campus expansion. Muir, Marshall, and Warren Colleges were established and built during the late 1960s through 1980s as the student population continued to grow considerably. Initially, the campus followed a rough north–south axis alongside Historic Route 101, though construction in the following decades deviated from this, with the core of the campus shifting towards Geisel Library.[1]

The school's two engineering departments were merged into the School of Engineering (renamed the Jacobs School of Engineering in 1987 in honor of Irwin Jacobs, founder of Qualcomm, and his wife Joan Jacobs) in 1982. New buildings have been continually added as the division expands. Major additions include the San Diego Supercomputer Center, completed in 1986; Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall, completed in 2003; and the Structural and Materials Engineering building, completed in 2012.[39][55][56] Significant construction work on the previously undeveloped northern part of campus also took place during this time. Two graduate professional schools, the School of Global Policy and Strategy and Rady School of Management, were constructed in the area adjacent to and near the Supercomputer Center, as well as Roosevelt College, a transfer student apartment complex called The Village at Torrey Pines, and the RIMAC athletic facilities.

Arts facilities edit

UC San Diego's Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theatre District, located just south of Revelle College, houses the Mandell Weiss Center for the Performing Arts. The center's facilities are shared with the La Jolla Playhouse, a Tony Award-winning professional theatre which is partnered with the university. UC San Diego and La Jolla Playhouse share four large performance venues in the Theatre District: the Mandell Weiss Theatre, the Mandell Weiss Forum, the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre, and the Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre. These venues, on top of hosting the undergraduate and graduate productions of the UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance, often host the Playhouse's professional productions of plays and musicals, of which several have transferred to Broadway. Other theatre performance facilities at UC San Diego include the Molli and Arthur Wagner Dance Building, also located within the Theatre District, and the Arthur Wagner Theatre located in Revelle College's Galbraith Hall.[57][58][59]

Other arts facilities include the 800-seat Mandeville Auditorium and Conrad Prebys Music Center, used by UC San Diego's music department, as well as Mandeville Center, the Visual Arts Facilities (VAF) building, and the Structural and Material Engineerings (SME) building, used by UC San Diego's visual arts department.[60][61] In 2022, UC San Diego opened the Epstein Family Amphitheater, a 2,650-seat open air performance venue featuring a year-round program (including summer) of concerts, performances, and events.[62][63]

Public art edit

Further information: Stuart Collection
 
Warren Bear

More than a dozen public art projects, part of the Stuart Collection, decorate the campus. The first, and a particularly wel Sun God, a large winged creature by Niki de Saint Phalle located near the Faculty Club. Other collection pieces include Richard Fleischner's La Jolla Project (a collection of Stonehenge-like stone blocks), Do Ho Suh's Fallen Star (a house sitting atop an engineering building in Warren College), a table by Jenny Holzer, an installation by Bruce Nauman on the Powell Structural Systems Laboratory titled Vices and Virtues, and three metallic Eucalyptus trees by Terry Allen.

 
Snake Path, east of Geisel Library.

The collection also includes a work by Alexis Smith consisting of a path made of a large coiling snake whose head guides towards Geisel Library, with a quote from John Milton's Paradise Lost carved along its length: "And wilt thou not be loath to leave this Paradise, but shalt possess a Paradise within thee, happier far." The path circles around its own garden and a large granite book-shaped block. One of the newest additions to the collection is Tim Hawkinson's giant teddy bear made of six boulders located in between the newly constructed Calit2 buildings.[64] Another notable campus sight was the graffiti staircase of Mandeville Hall, a series of corridors that had been tagged with graffiti by generations of students over decades of use; this was recently replaced with the Graffiti Art Park.[65] Students in the university's visual arts department also create temporary public art installations as part of their coursework. In 2007, the university sponsored a $56,000 performance art project to develop a sense of community at the sprawling campus.[66]

Shepard Fairey, most notable for his Barack Obama "Hope" poster, painted a mural at the Ché Café, one of UC San Diego's most famous buildings and collectives, on an outside wall facing Scholars Drive, that features the likenesses of Martin Luther King Jr. and other political figures. Underground street artist Swampy created a large piece inside the Ché Café, visible through the courtyard depicting his signature mammoth skeleton. Local San Diego artist Mario Torero, in collaboration with university art students, painted a mural at the Café in commemoration of Angela Davis and Rigoberta Menchú, along with other notable political figures. The Ché Café remains a hub for underground and politically progressive artists. Torero was invited back to the university in 2009 to create a mural called "Chicano Legacy" based on content suggested by Chicano students.[67] The mural is a $10,000 digital image on a 15-by-50-foot (4.6 by 15.2 m) canvas mounted on the exterior of Peterson Hall, which includes representations of César Chávez and Dolores Huerta as well as the kiosk structure at Chicano Park.[68] In 2016 a mural entitled "Enduring Spell" was completed by El Mac in the Argo courtyard,[69]

Transportation edit

UC San Diego maintains about 17,000 parking spaces and offers a number of alternative transportation options.[70][71] The university runs a shuttle system, which is provided free for students, faculty, and staff, that services the main campus, UC San Diego Medical Center, university affiliated research centers, as well as nearby apartment complexes. As part of a greater initiative to reduce the university's impact on the environment, a portion of the shuttle fleet has been refitted to exclusively use biodiesel fuel derived from vegetable oil.[72] In 2023, UC San Diego Triton Transit begun operating electric shuttles for its SIO route. However, plans to expand electric bus usage are currently paused as the company who manufactures the buses has declared bankruptcy.[73] UC San Diego also reserves parking spaces for carpools, maintains a fleet of on-campus Zipcars, and provides free bike rentals.

 
San Diego Trolley with Blue Line Extension to UC San Diego

Additionally, since November 21, 2021, the university can be accessed by the San Diego Trolley. On that day, the existing Blue Line was extended north from Downtown San Diego to UC San Diego and the University City area, the culmination of construction starting in 2016. The extension gave the campus two trolley stations: UC San Diego Health La Jolla and UC San Diego Central Campus.[74] A major goal of the project is to ease traffic and parking on campus while providing more accessible transportation to nearby areas. As part of the university's existing public transit partnerships, all students have unlimited access to MTS regional buses and trolleys, as well as most North County Transit District transportation services, upon paying a "transportation fee" as part of registration.[75]

Construction edit

Several facilities are currently under construction at the UC San Diego campus. Most prominently, the construction of new mixed-use residential areas which the university calls "Living and Learning Neighborhoods". The neighborhoods contain residential housing, classrooms, lecture halls, dining, and occasionally underground parking.

The first neighborhood constructed, the North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood, was completed in 2020. The neighborhood currently primarily houses students from Sixth College, and is located between John Muir College and Thurgood Marshall College.[76]

 
Pepper Canyon West Living & Learning Neighborhood under construction as viewed from the UC San Diego Central Campus Station.

The university currently has three Living & Learning neighborhoods under construction. The soonest to open is the Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood, which will house approximately 2,000 undergraduate students. The neighborhood is set to be the location of Eighth College. Construction began early 2022, and would take place over what were previously two parking lots. The neighborhood had an anticipated opening date of Fall 2023, but was extended due to construction delays.[77] The Theatre District Living & Learning Neighborhood is currently scheduled to open between Fall 2023 and Spring 2024.[78] The only currently open building is the Podemos building, which contains housing as well as academic instruction rooms.[79] The Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood features an underground parking garage.

The Pepper Canyon West Living and Learning Neighborhood is also currently under construction. The neighborhood is located in the west segment of the Pepper Canyon area of the university, next to the UC San Diego Central Campus Station.[80] The Pepper Canyon West Living and Learning Neighborhood is expected to house 1,300 transfer students and upper-division undergraduate students from all eight UC San Diego colleges in single-occupancy rooms.[81] The Pepper Canyon West Living & Learning Neighborhood is expected to open Fall 2024.

The Ridge Walk North Living and Learning Community is also currently under construction at UC San Diego. This neighborhood is located in the easternmost portion of Thurgood Marshall College, and is expected to house 2,400 undergraduate students, primarily from Thurgood Marshall College. Construction is estimated to finish between Fall 2025 and Winter 2026.[81]

In May 2023, the university announced the construction of Triton Center, a new facility near University Center that will host numerous student services along with an Alumni & Welcome Center.[82] It is expected to open Winter of 2026.[83]

The university also has various planned and ongoing projects in other locations, such as at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego Health La Jolla, and at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest. These projects include renovations to Birch Aquarium, A new fire station, and a 30-acre science research center, among many.[84]

In September 2023, chancellor Pradeep Khosla announced his intention to present a housing proposition to the Regents of the University of California. The aforementioned housing proposition which would contain a plan house approximately 6,000 students, though Khosla states he is open to changing the scale of the project. The proposition is expected to reach the Regents sometime in 2024.[85] If the proposition is accepted, the new housing would occupy what is currently Pepper Canyon East.

Academics and administration edit

UC San Diego is a large, primarily residential, public research university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges that offers a four-year Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degree to undergraduate students.[86] The full-time undergraduate program comprises the majority of enrollments at the university. The university offers 125 bachelor's degree programs organized into five disciplinary divisions: arts and humanities, biological sciences, engineering, mathematics and physical sciences, and social sciences.[87][88] Students are also free to design special majors or engage in dual majors.[89] 38% of undergraduates major in the social sciences, followed by 25% in biological sciences, 18% in engineering, 8% in sciences and math, 4% in humanities, and 3% in the arts.[90]

 
UC San Diego Rady School of Management and a Seventh College dormitory.
 
West exterior of the School of Global Policy and Strategy

UC San Diego's comprehensive graduate program is composed of several divisions and professional schools, including the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, School of Medicine, Institute of Engineering in Medicine, School of Global Policy and Strategy, Jacobs School of Engineering, Rady School of Management, and Skaggs School of Pharmacy. The university offers 35 masters programs, 47 doctoral programs, five professional programs, and nine joint doctoral programs with San Diego State University and other UC campuses.[91] UC San Diego has highly ranked graduate programs in biological sciences and medicine,[92] economics, social and behavioral sciences, physics, and computer engineering.[93]

The university also offers a continuing and public education program through UC San Diego Extension.[94] Approximately 50,000 enrollees per year are educated in this branch of the university,[94] which offers over 100 professional and specialized certificate programs.[94] Courses are offered at Extension facilities, located both on the main campus and off-campus, and also online.[94] UC San Diego Extension offers programs in Arts & Humanities, Business & Leadership, Data Analysis & Mathematics, Digital Arts, Education, Engineering, Environment & Sustainability, International Programs, Languages, Law, Occupational Safety & Health, Pre-College, Sciences, Technology, and Writing, as well as public programs such as the UC San Diego Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Helen Edison Lecture Series.[95] UC San Diego Extension also plans to open a 66,000-square-foot hub at the corner of Park Boulevard and Market Street in East Village referred to as the Innovative Cultural and Education Hub. The project is slated to be completed in 2020 and plans to "advance the burgeoning tech ecosystem downtown, contribute to the city's lively arts and culture scene, and connect in multiple ways with diverse neighborhoods such as Barrio Logan, the Diamond District, and Golden Hill."[96][97][98]

Residential colleges edit

 
Warren College contains most of the engineering buildings

UC San Diego's undergraduate division is organized into eight residential colleges, each headed by its own provost. They all set their own general education requirements, manage separate administrative and advising staff, and grant unique degrees. In chronological order by date of foundation, the eight colleges are:

  1. Revelle College, founded in 1964 as First College, emphasizes a "Renaissance education" through the Humanities sequence which integrates history, literature, and philosophy. It has highly structured requirements.
  2. John Muir College, founded in 1967 as Second College, emphasizes a "spirit of self-sufficiency and individual choice" and offers loosely structured general-education requirements.
  3. Thurgood Marshall College, founded in 1970 as Third College, emphasizes "scholarship, social responsibility and the belief that a liberal arts education must include an understanding of one's role in society".
  4. Earl Warren College, founded in 1974 as Fourth College, requires students to pursue a major of their choice while also requiring two "programs of concentration" in disciplines unrelated to each other and their major "toward a life in balance".
  5. Eleanor Roosevelt College, founded in 1988 as Fifth College, focuses its core education program on a cross-cultural interdisciplinary course sequence entitled "Making of the Modern World", has a foreign language requirement, and encourages studying abroad.
  6. Sixth College, founded in 2001, has a focus on "historical and philosophical connections among culture, art, and technology."
  7. Seventh College, founded in 2020, enrolled its first cohort of students in fall 2020, with the theme "A Changing Planet."
  8. Eighth College, founded in 2021, will enroll its first cohort of students in fall 2023, with the theme of "Engagement & Community"

Students affiliate with a college based upon its particular philosophy and environment as majors are not exclusive to specific colleges. Revelle and Sixth enroll the largest number of undergraduate students, followed by Warren, Muir, Roosevelt, and Marshall.[99] Each undergraduate college sets different requirements for awarding graduation and provost's honors, separate from departmental and Phi Beta Kappa honors.

Governance edit

Main article: Regents of the University of California

As one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system, UC San Diego is governed by a 26-member Board of Regents consisting of 18 officials appointed by the Governor of California, seven ex officio members, and a single student regent. The current president of the University of California is Michael Drake, and the administrative head of UC San Diego is Pradeep Khosla.[100] Academic policies are set by the school's Academic Senate, a legislative body composed of all university faculty members.[101] Nine vice chancellors manage academic affairs, research, diversity, marine sciences, student affairs, planning, external relations, business affairs, and health sciences and report directly to the chancellor.[102]

Research edit

 
Applied Physics and Mathematics

The Nature Index lists UC San Diego as 6th in the United States for research output by article count in 2019.[103] In 2020, UC San Diego spent $1.403 billion on research, the 6th highest expenditure among academic institutions in the United States.[16] The university operates several organized research units, including the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS), the Center for Drug Discovery Innovation, and the Institute for Neural Computation.[104] UC San Diego also maintains close ties to the nearby Scripps Research and Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1977, UC San Diego developed and released the UCSD Pascal programming language. The university was designated as one of the original national Alzheimer's disease research centers in 1984 by the National Institute on Aging.[105] In 2018, UC San Diego received $10.5 million from the National Nuclear Security Administration to establish the Center for Matters under Extreme Pressure (CMEC).[106]

The university founded the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in 1985, which provides high-performance computing for research in various scientific disciplines. In 2000, UC San Diego partnered with UC Irvine to create the Qualcomm Institute, which integrates research in photonics, nanotechnology, and wireless telecommunication to develop solutions to problems in energy, health, and the environment.[107]

UC San Diego also operates the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), one of the largest centers of research in earth science in the world, which predates the university itself. Together, SDSC and SIO, along with funding partner universities Caltech, SDSU, and UC Santa Barbara, manage the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network.[108]

Rankings edit

National rankings edit

UC San Diego is ranked 5th as Best Public University by Academic Ranking of World Universities[120] and 16th in the U.S. by the Center for World University Rankings.[121] Washington Monthly ranked the university 12th in its 2021 National University ranking, based on its contribution to the public good as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service. UC San Diego ranked fifth in the nation in terms of research and development expenditures in 2018, with $1.265 billion spent.[122] Kiplinger in 2014 ranked UC San Diego 14th out of the top 100 best-value public colleges and universities in the nation, and 3rd in California.[123] UC San Diego was ranked tied for 35th among national universities in the United States and tied for 8th among public universities by U.S. News & World Report's 2021 rankings.[124] ScienceWatch ranks UC San Diego 7th of federally funded U.S. universities, based on the citation impact of their published research in major fields of science and the social sciences and 12th globally by volume of citations.[125][126]

Global rankings edit

 
Jacobs Medical Center as seen from the southwest path

Recognized as a Public Ivy, UC San Diego is a highly regarded research institution, ranked 11th in the world by the Nature Index,[127] 14th in the world by the Scrimago Institutions Rankings,[128] 14th in the world by the Lens Metric,[129] 14th best university in the world according to TBS Rankings,[130] 16th in U.S. News & World Report's 2017 global university rankings,[131] 15th in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities,[132] 16th best university in the world by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies of Leiden University Ranking,[133] 18th in the world by the Center for World University Rankings,[134] 18th in the world by University Ranking by Academic Performance,[135] and 5th best public university in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.[136]

The University of California San Diego is ranked 15th by the Academic Ranking of World Universities,[120] and is ranked 17th "Best University in the World" by the Center for World University Rankings for 2016.[121] U.S. News & World Report named UC San Diego the 15th best university in the world for 2017 for research, global and regional reputation, international collaboration, and several highly cited papers.[131] In 2017, UC San Diego was ranked 30th in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.[137] UC San Diego was also ranked 38th overall in the world, and 11th in biological sciences, 16th in life sciences, and medicine, 19th in economics and econometrics, 31st in mathematics, and 44th in computer science and information systems by QS World University Rankings.[138] In 2015, the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University named UC San Diego 16th in the world for scientific impact.[139]

Graduate school rankings edit

The UC San Diego School of Medicine is ranked tied for 18th for research and 12th for primary care in the 2018 U.S. News & World Report rankings.[140] The Rady School of Management at UC San Diego is ranked 17th in the world for faculty research and 8th for alumni entrepreneurship in the 2014 Financial Times’ Global MBA.[141] In 2014 the Rady School ranked 1st in the nation in intellectual capital by Bloomberg Businessweek, which measured faculty research published in the top 20 business journals from 2009 to 2013.[142] UC San Diego was named 8th in the nation among doctoral institutions for the number of students who study abroad for a full academic year, according to the Institute of International Education Open Doors report.[143] Three doctoral programs at UC San Diego—biological sciences, bioengineering, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography—are 1st in the nation in the National Research Council's Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs report.[144]

Departmental rankings edit

Departmental rankings (including specialties) in the national top 10 according to the 2018 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools[145] report include biomedical engineering/bioengineering (2nd); neuroscience/neurobiology (2nd); biochemistry (10th); discrete mathematics and combinatorics (3rd); plasma physics (7th); econometrics (4th); public finance (8th); political science (9th); international politics (4th); comparative politics (4th); behavioral neuroscience (4th); cognitive psychology (8th); and time-based media/new media (3rd).

Departmental rankings in the global top 10 according to the 2015 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools report[146] include: biology and biochemistry (6th); molecular biology and genetics (8th); neuroscience and behavior (6th); pharmacology and toxicology (5th); and psychiatry and psychology (8th).

Departmental rankings in the global top 20 according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)[147] for 2015 include chemistry (18th); computer science (14th); and economics/business (19th). Since introduced in 2017, the ARWU Subject Rankings has ranked mechanical engineering at UC San Diego as the top (1st) public university program in the US (2017–2020). Mechanical engineering at UC San Diego has also consistently ranked as a top 5 US overall and a top 10 program worldwide since the introduction of subject rankings by ARWU.[148]

Departmental rankings in the global top 20 according to the QS World University Rankings for 2015 include earth and marine sciences (13th);[149] biological sciences (14th);[150] economics and econometrics (18th);[151] and pharmacy and pharmacology (20th).[152] Additional rankings within the global top 40 include politics and international studies (21st);[153] medicine (22nd);[154] mathematics (28th);[155] linguistics (31st);[156] and electrical engineering (34th).[157]

ScienceWatch placed UC San Diego 1st in social psychology,[158] 2nd in oceanography,[159] 3rd in international relations,[160] 5th in molecular biology and genetics,[161][162] 17th in engineering,[163] and 18th in Neuroscience and Behavior[164] using non-survey, quantitative based metrics to determine research impact.

The Hollywood Reporter has ranked UC San Diego's graduate theatre program among the top ten drama schools in 2016 (6th), 2017 (5th), 2018 (4th), 2019 (3rd), 2020 (3rd), and 2021 (5th) also ranking the undergraduate theatre program as one of the top five in the nation in 2018.[165][166][167][168]

Admissions edit

Fall Freshman Statistics[169][170][171][172]
2022 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012
Applicants 131,229 99,133 97,899 88,456 84,208 78,056 73,440 67,400 60,805
Admitted 31,102 32,062 29,577 30,204 30,028 26,509 24,595 24,832 22,963
Admit rate 23.7% 32.3% 30.2% 34.1% 36.0% 34.0% 33.5% 36.8% 37.8%
Enrolled 6,547 6,021 6,704 5,699 5,746 5,292 4,922 5,228 4,573
Average GPA 4.21 4.08 4.07 4.08 4.05 4.08 4.08 4.06 4.00
SAT range Test Blind 1250-1470 1300-1520 NA 1750-2073 1800-2150 1760-2110 1750-2080 1750-2070
ACT range Test Blind 24-33 28-34 26-31 26-31 27-32 26-32 26-31 26-31

UC San Diego is categorized by U.S. News & World Report as "most selective" for college admissions ratings within the United States.[173] For the Fall 2022 admissions cycle, the school received 150,963 applications from both freshman and transfer applicants. Of those 150,963 applications, 131,229 applications were from prospective freshman with UC San Diego granting admission to just 31,102 applicants, almost 9,000 fewer than the previous year, giving the institution an acceptance rate of 23.7% for the fall 2022 admission cycle.[citation needed]

In 2009, UC San Diego mistakenly sent Admit Day welcome emails to all its 47,000 freshmen applicants, instead of just the 17,000 who had been admitted.[174] However, school officials quickly realized the mistake and sent an apology email within two hours.[175]

Graduate admissions are largely centralized through the Office of Graduate Studies. However, the Rady School of Management, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) handle their own admissions. For Fall 2012, the UC San Diego School of Medicine offered admission to 5% of its applicants.[176]

Student life edit

Undergraduate demographics as of Fall 2020
Race and ethnicity[177] Total
Asian 33% 33
 
Hispanic 22% 22
 
White 19% 19
 
Foreign national 17% 17
 
Other[a] 7% 7
 
Black 2% 2
 
Economic diversity
Low-income[b] 33% 33
 
Affluent[c] 67% 67
 

In all, the university offers classical orchestras, intramural sports, and over 550 student organizations.[178][179] 38 national and local Greek organizations are hosted on campus,[180] with fraternity and sorority members representing 20% of the student population.[181] The university operates on an academic quarter system, with three primary quarters beginning in late September and ending in mid-June.[182] 44% of undergraduate students receive federal Pell Grants.[183]

The undergraduate student body government is the Associated Students of the University of California, San Diego, organized as a cabinet and senate,[184][185] while graduate students are represented by the Graduate Student Association, a proportional representative body with membership depending on the number of students in each graduate department.[186] Additionally, graduate students who serve as teaching assistants are represented by the UC-wide union of Academic Student Employees. Each of the eight residential colleges has its own student council as well. Most student media publications distributed on-campus are services provided and governed by ASUCSD, including Triton Television,[187] the school's student run film studio, and the KSDT radio station.[188] A notable exception is The Guardian, which is directly governed by the university's Student Affairs department.

 
Price Center

Price Center, often referred to as PC, is the main student hub and is located in the center of campus, just south of Geisel Library. The building houses multiple restaurants, the central bookstore, a movie theater, and office space for student organizations, organization advisers, and university faculty.[189] A student referendum was passed in 2003 to expand the Price Center to nearly double its original size. The Price Center East expansion was officially opened to the public on May 19, 2008.[190]

There are also three campus centers that cultivate a sense of community among faculty, staff, and certain students: the Cross-Cultural Center, the Women's Center, and the LGBT Resource Center. UC San Diego was the last UC campus to have such centers. All three, especially the Cross-Cultural Center that was created first, were founded in the mid-1990s as a result of student movements that demanded change despite opposition by the campus administration.[191]

The Ché Café is a student worker cooperative and social center that is perhaps best known for its role as a venue for underground music scene.[192] It is an on-and-off again vegan cafe and catering operation as well. The Ché also acts as a resource for the music and art departments on campus through hosting art shows, performances, and film screenings. Some of the most notable touring bands or musicians who have played at the Ché include: Bon Iver, Green Day, Rise Against, Jimmy Eat World, Matt & Kim, Billy Corgan, Blonde Redhead, Bomb the Music Industry!, The Get Up Kids, Deerhoof, Bright Eyes, Chumbawamba, Mike Watt, Hella, Dan Deacon, Unwound, and Jawbreaker. Prominent local San Diego bands such as The Locust and Pinback, and national tours such as Mates of State and The Dillinger Escape Plan have given the Ché Café some fame and praise as a radical vegan collective despite its small size and limited sound equipment.[193]

 
The June 2007 Watermelon Drop, an annual tradition at Revelle College

Traditions edit

The student body government coordinates a wide variety of concerts and events during the year. UC San Diego begins the fall quarter with Welcome Week to introduce new students to campus clubs and activities,[194] starting the week with the All Campus Dance. The Hullabaloo music festival takes place every November as part of the university's Founders' Celebration. Bear Garden, a carnival held near Price Center, takes place every quarter throughout the year. Additionally, events are frequently held at the Loft, a performance lounge within Price Center.[195]

The Sun God Festival, named after the statue part of the Stuart Collection, is the largest and most significant event of the year, held annually in mid-May on the seventh week of the spring quarter.[citation needed] The festival has grown over its 30-year history into a 20,000 person event, featuring an eclectic mix of art, dance, and musical performances. Past performers have included: Kendrick Lamar, Porter Robinson, Macklemore, Silversun Pickups, Wiz Khalifa, Drake, T.I., Third Eye Blind, Ludacris, Michelle Branch, Sara Bareilles, The Roots, My Chemical Romance, and Joji. The 2017 festival featured ScHoolboy Q, DJ Mustard, Bad Suns, Manila Killa and Khalid.[196]

Two other popular campus traditions are the Pumpkin Drop and the Watermelon Drop, which take place during Halloween and at the end of the spring quarter, respectively.[197] The Watermelon Drop is one of the campus' oldest traditions, famously originating in 1965 from a physics exam question centering on the velocity on impact of a dropped object. A group of intrigued students pursued that line of thought by dropping a watermelon from the top floor of Revelle's Urey Hall to measure the distance from the splat to the farthest travelling piece of fruit. A variety of events surround the Watermelon Drop, including a pageant where an occasionally male but generally female "Watermelon Queen" is elected. The Pumpkin Drop is a similar event celebrated by the dropping of a large, candy-filled pumpkin from 11-story Tioga Hall, the tallest residential building on the Muir college campus.

Housing edit

The eight undergraduate residential colleges have separate, unique housing facilities for their students. First-year students are usually housed in the residence halls while upperclassmen live in the college apartments. Transfer students are housed in separate facilities from the residential colleges, in an area called The Village at Pepper Canyon.[198] The housing facilities vary in design, though nearly all of them are of modern or brutalist style. The vast majority of entering freshmen and about 40 percent of all undergraduates in Fall 2012 chose to live in campus residence halls or apartments.[199] Graduate students can choose to live in one of six apartment complexes apart from undergraduate housing.[citation needed] Three of these facilities are several minutes away from UC San Diego while the remaining are located on university grounds. Each residential college comes with a separate unique philosophy, general education writing sequence and events on top of having separate housing facilities.

College[200] Founded Motto Emphasis Writing Sequence Dining Hall[201] Festival
Revelle College 1964 Purpose, Truth, Vision Renaissance education Humanities (HUM) 64 Degrees Watermelon Drop Festival,

Revellution

John Muir College 1967 Celebrating the Independent Spirit Individual Choice Muir College Writing

Program (MCWP)

Pines Muirstock
Thurgood Marshall College 1970 Developing the Scholar and the Citizen Social responsibility Dimensions of Culture (DOC) OceanView Marshallpalooza
Earl Warren College 1974 Toward a life of balance Balanced education Warren Writing/Ethics (WCWP) Canyon Vista Warren Live!
Eleanor Roosevelt College 1988 Developing World Citizens Through

Scholarship, Leadership, and Service

International studies Making of the

Modern World (MMW)

Ventanas Rockin' Roosevelt
Sixth College 2001 Preparing Effective Citizens

for the 21st Century

Connections between

Culture, art and technology

Culture, Art and

Technology (CAT)

Restaurants at Sixth College Chocolate Festival,

Kuncocshun

Seventh College 2020 A Changing Planet Environmental sustainability Synthesis (SYN) The Bistro N/A
Eighth College 2021 Engagement & Community Solving issues within the local community and beyond Critical Community Engagement (CCE) N/A N/A

Accommodations are made for students with specific needs. Undergraduate couples and families have the option of living in housing facilities that are normally available only to graduate students.[202] The university also dedicates a portion of its facilities for those who wish to live in gender-neutral or LGBT housing.[203]

Reflecting UC San Diego's diversity, International House, a complex of apartments located in Eleanor Roosevelt College, is dedicated to cross-cultural exchange between American and international students, housing about 350 students from more than 30 countries.[204] International learning is fostered through formal programs including current affairs discussions, cultural nights, and a community newsletter. Upper-division undergraduates from all eight colleges, graduate students, faculty, and researchers are eligible to live in International House, located in the Eleanor Roosevelt College townhouses. Demand is very high for this special program and there is often a waitlist. Spaces in International House are not guaranteed and admission requires a separate application.[205]

Housing plans also offer students access to dining facilities, which were named by PETA as the most vegan-friendly in the United States.[206] Each student is allotted a certain number of "Dining Dollars" to purchase meals at any dining hall and groceries at any on-campus market. Distinct dining halls are located at each of the eight colleges, except for Eighth College, with markets located adjacent or near them, except at Eleanor Roosevelt College which shares a marketplace with Seventh College. In addition to the dining halls, there are also four specialty dining facilities and two food trucks on campus that accept dining dollars.

As of July 2022, UC San Diego had 18,022 beds of student housing inventory, giving it the third-highest capacity in the United States behind Penn State and UCLA.[207] The university currently offers two years guaranteed housing to both its incoming freshmen and its incoming transfer students,[208] and it intends to reach a capacity that will enable it to offer a four-year housing guarantee.[207]

Greek life edit

UC San Diego boasts a large Greek community and supports several fraternities and sororities, each belonging to one of three different governing councils. Social fraternities belong to the Interfraternity Council, while social sororities belong to the Panhellenic Council.[209]

The university also sponsors a Multicultural Greek Council (MGC), which currently recognizes 8 fraternities and 7 sororities.[212]

Greek life at UC San Diego is unique in comparison to other universities in that Greek organizations do not have chapter houses.[213]

Athletics edit

Main article: UC San Diego Tritons
Men's sports Women's sports
Baseball Basketball
Basketball Cross Country
Cross Country Fencing
Fencing Rowing
Golf Soccer
Rowing Softball
Soccer Swimming & Diving
Swimming & Diving Tennis
Tennis Track & Field
Track & Field Volleyball
Volleyball Water Polo
Water Polo

On November 27, 2017, the university announced that its athletic programs have begun a 6-year transition process from NCAA Division II to Division I, where it will be a member of the Big West Conference.[214] As of 2017 most of UC San Diego's 23 intercollegiate varsity athletic teams still participate in Division II, 12-member California Collegiate Athletic Association, and some compete independently. The water polo, fencing, and men's volleyball teams compete as part of Division I conferences.[215] Before joining Division II in 2000, the school participated at the Division III level.[216] The teams compete at the university's RIMAC facility, Triton Ballpark, and RIMAC Arena. University of California, San Diego was ranked #1 among all NCAA D2 schools in the country and #40 overall (for all divisions), according to the Next College Student Athlete's 2018 NCSA Power Rankings.[217] The NCSA Power Rankings recognize the best colleges and universities in the U.S. for student-athletes.[218] UC San Diego athletics also ranked #1 in men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's track and field, men's and women's tennis, men's golf, women's rowing, softball, and baseball, among all NCAA D2 schools. Additionally, UC San Diego ranked #1 in Men's Water Polo and Men's Volleyball among NCAA D1 schools.[219]

 
The Tritons softball team in 2013

In all, the Tritons have won a total of 30 national championships in golf, soccer, softball, tennis, volleyball, and water polo.[220] The 2006–07 season was marked as UC San Diego's best since moving to Division II, with 19 athletic programs qualifying for post-season competition, including 17 for the NCAA Championships. Eight of those teams finished with a top five national ranking.[221]

 
Athletic mascot, the Triton

Until 2007, UC San Diego was the only Division II school that did not offer athletic scholarships. In 2005, the NCAA created a rule that made it mandatory for all D-II programs to award athletic grants. Consequently, a measure was proposed to begin offering $500 "grants-in-aid" to all 600 intercollegiate athletes in order to meet this requirement. A student referendum was passed in February 2007, authorizing a $329 annual student fee to fund a raise in coaches' salaries, hire more trainers, and provide all athletes with a $500 scholarship.[222]

The athletic department considered a move to Division I in 2011. The student body would have needed to approve a doubling of student fees to allow the university to meet minimum scholarship requirements for D-I participation. However, students overwhelmingly rejected this measure in 2012, halting any efforts for a move to Division I at that time.[223]

On May 24, 2016, students at UC San Diego passed the vote to move their athletics to NCAA Division I. The school's newspaper, The Guardian, reported that voter turnout was 35 percent of the undergraduate population, when the measure only needed 20 percent to pass.[224]

The university offers 30 sports club teams, including badminton, baseball, cycling, dancesport, ice hockey, lacrosse, rugby, sailing, soccer, snow skiing, tennis, volleyball, ultimate, water polo, and waterskiing.[225] The UC San Diego surf team has won the national championship six times and is consistently rated one of the best surfing programs in the United States.[226] UC San Diego does not have a football team. However, the university participated in intercollegiate football for one year during the 1968 season. The newly recruited Tritons lost all seven games that they played.[227]

Alumni edit

Main article: List of University of California, San Diego people
Notable UC San Diego living alumni include:[228]

See also edit

  • TRI-D (rocket engine)
  • S*, a collaboration between seven universities and the Karolinska Institutet for training in bioinformatics and genomics

Notes edit

  1. ^ Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.
  2. ^ The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
  3. ^ The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.

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UCSD redirects here For other uses see UCSD disambiguation For the public California State University university see San Diego State University For the private university see University of San Diego The University of California San Diego 10 UC San Diego or colloquially UCSD is a public land grant research university in San Diego California Established in 1960 near the pre existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography UC San Diego is the southernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California and offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs enrolling 33 096 undergraduate and 9 872 graduate students The university occupies 2 178 acres 881 ha near the coast of the Pacific Ocean with the main campus resting on approximately 1 152 acres 466 ha 11 University of California San DiegoMottoFiat lux Latin Motto in English Let there be light TypePublic land grant research universityEstablishedNovember 18 1960 63 years ago 1960 11 18 1 Parent institutionUniversity of CaliforniaAccreditationWSCUCAcademic affiliationsAAUAPRUURASea grantSpace grantEndowment 3 billion 2023 2 ChancellorPradeep Khosla 3 Academic staff10 915 October 2020 4 Administrative staff23 461 October 2020 4 Students42 968 Fall 2022 5 Undergraduates33 096 Fall 2022 5 Postgraduates9 872 Fall 2022 5 LocationLa Jolla San Diego California United States32 52 48 N 117 14 02 W 32 8801 N 117 234 W 32 8801 117 234CampusLarge city 7 2 178 acres 881 ha 6 NewspaperThe GuardianColorsUC San Diego Navy Blue Yellow and Gold 8 NicknameTritonsSporting affiliationsNCAA Division I Big WestMPSFWWPAWIRAMascotKing Triton 9 Websitewww wbr ucsd wbr eduUC San Diego consists of twelve undergraduate graduate and professional schools as well as eight undergraduate residential colleges 12 13 The university operates 19 organized research units as well as eight School of Medicine research units six research centers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and two multi campus initiatives 14 UC San Diego is also closely affiliated with several regional research centers such as the Salk Institute the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine and the Scripps Research Institute It is classified among R1 Doctoral Universities Very high research activity 15 According to the National Science Foundation UC San Diego spent 1 403 billion on research and development in fiscal year 2021 giving it the second highest R amp D spending in the University of California system and the 7th highest in the nation 16 UC San Diego has been considered a Public Ivy UC San Diego faculty researchers and alumni have won 27 Nobel Prizes as well as three Fields Medals eight National Medals of Science eight MacArthur Fellowships and three Pulitzer Prizes 17 18 19 20 21 Additionally of the current faculty 29 have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering 18 70 to the National Academy of Sciences 22 45 to the Institute of Medicine and 110 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 17 Contents 1 History 2 Campus 2 1 Academic facilities 2 2 Arts facilities 2 3 Public art 2 4 Transportation 2 5 Construction 3 Academics and administration 3 1 Residential colleges 3 2 Governance 3 3 Research 3 4 Rankings 3 4 1 National rankings 3 4 2 Global rankings 3 4 3 Graduate school rankings 3 4 4 Departmental rankings 3 5 Admissions 4 Student life 4 1 Traditions 4 2 Housing 4 3 Greek life 5 Athletics 6 Alumni 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 External linksHistory editWhen the Regents of the University of California originally authorized the San Diego campus in 1956 it was planned to be a graduate and research institution providing instruction in the sciences mathematics and engineering 23 Local citizens supported the idea voting the same year to transfer to the university 59 acres 24 ha of mesa land on the coast near the preexisting Scripps Institution of Oceanography The Regents requested an additional gift of 550 acres 220 ha of undeveloped mesa land northeast of Scripps as well as 500 acres 200 ha on the former site of Camp Matthews from the federal government but Roger Revelle then director of Scripps Institution and main advocate for establishing the new campus jeopardized the site selection by exposing the La Jolla community s exclusive real estate business practices which were antagonistic to minority racial and religious groups This outraged local conservatives as well as Regent Edwin W Pauley 23 Revelle also got involved in a bitter debate with Jonas Salk over where Salk s proposed institute would be located relative to the new campus 23 nbsp Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San DiegoUC President Clark Kerr satisfied San Diego city donors by changing the proposed name from University of California La Jolla to University of California San Diego 1 23 The city voted to agree to its part of the deal in 1958 and the UC Board of Regents approved construction of the new campus in 1960 Because Revelle s tactless approaches to the clashes with Pauley and Salk had damaged his reputation with the Board of Regents Kerr realized he could not nominate Revelle as the campus s first chancellor Revelle s nomination would have become an angry and drawn out affair and greatly detracted from the campus s future development Herbert York first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was selected instead 23 York planned the main campus according to the Oxbridge model relying on many of Revelle s ideas 24 According to Kerr San Diego always asked for the best though this created much friction throughout the UC system including with Kerr himself because UC San Diego often seemed to be asking for too much and too fast 23 Kerr attributed UC San Diego s special personality to Scripps which for over five decades had been the most isolated UC unit in every sense geographically financially and institutionally 23 It was a great shock to the Scripps community to learn that Scripps was now expected to become the nucleus of a new UC campus and would now be the object of far more attention from both the university administration in Berkeley and the state government in Sacramento 23 UC San Diego was the first general campus of the University of California to be designed from the top down in terms of research emphasis 25 Local leaders disagreed on whether the new school should be a technical research institute or a more broadly based school that included undergraduates as well John Jay Hopkins of General Dynamics Corporation pledged one million dollars for the former while the City Council offered free land for the latter 24 26 The original authorization for the San Diego campus given by the UC Regents in 1956 approved a graduate program in science and technology that included undergraduate programs a compromise that won both the support of General Dynamics and the city voters approval 24 Nobel laureate Harold Urey a physicist from the University of Chicago James R Arnold a pioneering cosmochemist the and Hans Suess who had published the first paper on the greenhouse effect with Revelle in the previous year were early recruits to the faculty in 1958 26 Maria Goeppert Mayer later the second female Nobel laureate in physics was appointed professor of physics in 1960 26 The graduate division of the school opened in 1960 with 20 faculty in residence with instruction offered in the fields of physics biology chemistry and earth science Before the main campus completed construction classes were held in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography 24 By 1963 new facilities on the mesa had been finished for the School of Science and Engineering and new buildings were under construction for Social Sciences and Humanities Ten additional faculty in those disciplines were hired and the whole site was designated the First College of the new campus it was later renamed after Roger Revelle York resigned as chancellor that year and was replaced by John Semple Galbraith 26 The undergraduate program accepted its first class of 181 freshman at Revelle College in 1964 24 27 Second College was founded in 1964 on the land deeded by the federal government and named after environmentalist John Muir two years later 28 The School of Medicine also accepted its first students in 1966 26 Political theorist Herbert Marcuse joined the faculty in 1965 A champion of the New Left he reportedly was the first protester to occupy the administration building in a demonstration organized by his student political activist Angela Davis 29 The American Legion offered to buy out the remainder of Marcuse s contract for 20 000 the Regents censured Chancellor William J McGill for defending Marcuse on the basis of academic freedom but further action was averted after local leaders expressed support for Marcuse 26 Further student unrest was felt at the university as the United States increased its involvement in the Vietnam War during the mid 1960s when a student raised a Viet Minh flag over the campus 24 Protests escalated as the war continued and were only exacerbated after the National Guard fired on student protesters at Kent State University in 1970 Over 200 students occupied Urey Hall with one student setting himself on fire in protest of the war 24 30 Early research activity and faculty quality notably in the sciences was integral to shaping the focus and culture of the university Even before UC San Diego had its own campus faculty recruits had already made significant research breakthroughs such as the Keeling Curve a graph that plots rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and was the first significant evidence for global climate change the Kohn Sham equations used to investigate particular atoms and molecules in quantum chemistry and the Miller Urey experiment which gave birth to the field of prebiotic chemistry 31 32 33 Engineering particularly computer science became an important part of the university s academics as it matured University researchers helped develop UCSD Pascal an early machine independent programming language that later heavily influenced Java 34 35 36 37 the National Science Foundation Network a precursor to the Internet and the Network News Transfer Protocol during the late 1970s to 1980s 38 Under Richard C Atkinson s leadership as chancellor from 1980 to 1995 the university strengthened its ties with the city of San Diego by encouraging technology transfer with developing companies transforming San Diego into a world leader in technology based industries He oversaw a rapid expansion of the School of Engineering later renamed after Qualcomm founder Irwin M Jacobs with the construction of the San Diego Supercomputer Center 39 and establishment of the computer science electrical engineering and bioengineering departments 40 Private donations increased from 15 million to nearly 50 million annually faculty expanded by nearly 50 and enrollment doubled to about 18 000 students during his administration By the end of his chancellorship the quality of UC San Diego graduate programs was ranked 10th in the nation by the National Research Council 41 The university continued to undergo further expansion during the first decade of the new millennium with the establishment and construction of two new professional schools the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Rady School of Management and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology a research institute run jointly with UC Irvine UC San Diego also reached two financial milestones during this time becoming the first university in the western region to raise over 1 billion in its eight year fundraising campaign in 2007 42 and also obtaining an additional 1 billion through research contracts and grants in a single fiscal year for the first time in 2010 1 Despite this due to the California budget crisis the university loaned 40 million against its own assets in 2009 to offset a significant reduction in state educational appropriations 43 The salary of Pradeep Khosla who became chancellor in 2012 has been the subject of controversy amidst continued budget cuts and tuition increases 3 In 2012 campus launched a 10 year 2 billion fundraising campaign which the campus completed 3 years early in 2019 making it the youngest university in the United States to have completed a 2 billion fundraiser 44 45 On November 27 2017 the university announced it would leave its longtime athletic home of the California Collegiate Athletic Association an NCAA Division II league to begin a transition to Division I in 2020 It joined the Big West Conference already home to four other UC campuses Davis Irvine Riverside Santa Barbara The university transitioned to NCAA Division I competition on July 1 2020 46 The transition period will run through the 2023 24 school year 47 Campus edit nbsp Panorama of the Jacobs School of Engineering on Earl Warren College mall From left to right Geisel Library Engineering Building Unit EBU I the Powell Focht Bioengineering Building the Computer Science Building and EBU II visible through trees nbsp Geisel Library named for Theodor Geisel better known as Dr SeussUC San Diego is located in the residential neighborhood of La Jolla of northern San Diego bordered by the communities of La Jolla Shores Torrey Pines and University City The main campus consists of 761 buildings that occupy 1 152 acres 466 ha with natural reserves covering about 889 acres 360 ha and outlying facilities taking up the remaining area 11 The San Diego Freeway Interstate 5 passes through the campus and separates Jacobs Medical Center and Mesa apartment housing from the greater part of the university The Preuss School a college preparatory charter school established and administered by UC San Diego also lies on the eastern portion of the campus 48 Standing at the center of the university is the iconic Geisel Library named after Dr Seuss following a 20 million donation from his wife Audrey Geisel Library Walk a heavily traveled pathway leading from the library to Gilman Drive lies adjacent or close to Price Center Center Hall International Center and various student services buildings including the Student Services Center and the Career Services building The layout of the main campus centers on the library which is roughly surrounded by the eight residential colleges of Revelle Muir Marshall Warren Roosevelt Sixth Seventh and Eighth in addition to the School of Medicine The eight colleges maintain separate housing facilities for their students and each college s buildings are differentiated by distinct architectural styles As residential colleges were added while the university expanded buildings in newer colleges were designed with styles that were starkly different from that of the original campus The disparate architectural styles led Travel Leisure in its October 2013 issue to name the university as one of the ugliest campuses in America likening it to a cupboard full of kitchen appliances whose function you can t quite fathom 49 nbsp Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute buildingIn addition to its academic and housing facilities the campus features eucalyptus groves 50 the Birch Aquarium and museum and several major research centers The Scripps Institution owns a sea port and several open ocean vessels for marine research 51 52 Several large shake facilities including the world record holding Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table used for earthquake simulations are also maintained by the university 53 The university has actively sought to reduce carbon emissions and energy usage on campus earning a gold sustainability performance rating in the Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System STARS survey It was also praised in The Princeton Review s Guide to 322 Green Colleges 2013 Edition for its strong commitment to sustainability in its academic offerings campus infrastructure activities and career preparation 54 Academic facilities edit nbsp The Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center houses the Departments of Cardiology and Emergency Medicine at UC San Diego HealthWhen the campus opened in 1964 it consisted only of Revelle College and Scripps Institution of Oceanography The school s rapid increase in enrollment and opening to undergraduate students over its first decade spurred major campus expansion Muir Marshall and Warren Colleges were established and built during the late 1960s through 1980s as the student population continued to grow considerably Initially the campus followed a rough north south axis alongside Historic Route 101 though construction in the following decades deviated from this with the core of the campus shifting towards Geisel Library 1 The school s two engineering departments were merged into the School of Engineering renamed the Jacobs School of Engineering in 1987 in honor of Irwin Jacobs founder of Qualcomm and his wife Joan Jacobs in 1982 New buildings have been continually added as the division expands Major additions include the San Diego Supercomputer Center completed in 1986 Powell Focht Bioengineering Hall completed in 2003 and the Structural and Materials Engineering building completed in 2012 39 55 56 Significant construction work on the previously undeveloped northern part of campus also took place during this time Two graduate professional schools the School of Global Policy and Strategy and Rady School of Management were constructed in the area adjacent to and near the Supercomputer Center as well as Roosevelt College a transfer student apartment complex called The Village at Torrey Pines and the RIMAC athletic facilities Arts facilities edit UC San Diego s Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theatre District located just south of Revelle College houses the Mandell Weiss Center for the Performing Arts The center s facilities are shared with the La Jolla Playhouse a Tony Award winning professional theatre which is partnered with the university UC San Diego and La Jolla Playhouse share four large performance venues in the Theatre District the Mandell Weiss Theatre the Mandell Weiss Forum the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre and the Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre These venues on top of hosting the undergraduate and graduate productions of the UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance often host the Playhouse s professional productions of plays and musicals of which several have transferred to Broadway Other theatre performance facilities at UC San Diego include the Molli and Arthur Wagner Dance Building also located within the Theatre District and the Arthur Wagner Theatre located in Revelle College s Galbraith Hall 57 58 59 Other arts facilities include the 800 seat Mandeville Auditorium and Conrad Prebys Music Center used by UC San Diego s music department as well as Mandeville Center the Visual Arts Facilities VAF building and the Structural and Material Engineerings SME building used by UC San Diego s visual arts department 60 61 In 2022 UC San Diego opened the Epstein Family Amphitheater a 2 650 seat open air performance venue featuring a year round program including summer of concerts performances and events 62 63 Public art edit Further information Stuart Collection nbsp Warren BearMore than a dozen public art projects part of the Stuart Collection decorate the campus The first and a particularly wel Sun God a large winged creature by Niki de Saint Phalle located near the Faculty Club Other collection pieces include Richard Fleischner s La Jolla Project a collection of Stonehenge like stone blocks Do Ho Suh s Fallen Star a house sitting atop an engineering building in Warren College a table by Jenny Holzer an installation by Bruce Nauman on the Powell Structural Systems Laboratory titled Vices and Virtues and three metallic Eucalyptus trees by Terry Allen nbsp Snake Path east of Geisel Library The collection also includes a work by Alexis Smith consisting of a path made of a large coiling snake whose head guides towards Geisel Library with a quote from John Milton s Paradise Lost carved along its length And wilt thou not be loath to leave this Paradise but shalt possess a Paradise within thee happier far The path circles around its own garden and a large granite book shaped block One of the newest additions to the collection is Tim Hawkinson s giant teddy bear made of six boulders located in between the newly constructed Calit2 buildings 64 Another notable campus sight was the graffiti staircase of Mandeville Hall a series of corridors that had been tagged with graffiti by generations of students over decades of use this was recently replaced with the Graffiti Art Park 65 Students in the university s visual arts department also create temporary public art installations as part of their coursework In 2007 the university sponsored a 56 000 performance art project to develop a sense of community at the sprawling campus 66 Shepard Fairey most notable for his Barack Obama Hope poster painted a mural at the Che Cafe one of UC San Diego s most famous buildings and collectives on an outside wall facing Scholars Drive that features the likenesses of Martin Luther King Jr and other political figures Underground street artist Swampy created a large piece inside the Che Cafe visible through the courtyard depicting his signature mammoth skeleton Local San Diego artist Mario Torero in collaboration with university art students painted a mural at the Cafe in commemoration of Angela Davis and Rigoberta Menchu along with other notable political figures The Che Cafe remains a hub for underground and politically progressive artists Torero was invited back to the university in 2009 to create a mural called Chicano Legacy based on content suggested by Chicano students 67 The mural is a 10 000 digital image on a 15 by 50 foot 4 6 by 15 2 m canvas mounted on the exterior of Peterson Hall which includes representations of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta as well as the kiosk structure at Chicano Park 68 In 2016 a mural entitled Enduring Spell was completed by El Mac in the Argo courtyard 69 Transportation edit UC San Diego maintains about 17 000 parking spaces and offers a number of alternative transportation options 70 71 The university runs a shuttle system which is provided free for students faculty and staff that services the main campus UC San Diego Medical Center university affiliated research centers as well as nearby apartment complexes As part of a greater initiative to reduce the university s impact on the environment a portion of the shuttle fleet has been refitted to exclusively use biodiesel fuel derived from vegetable oil 72 In 2023 UC San Diego Triton Transit begun operating electric shuttles for its SIO route However plans to expand electric bus usage are currently paused as the company who manufactures the buses has declared bankruptcy 73 UC San Diego also reserves parking spaces for carpools maintains a fleet of on campus Zipcars and provides free bike rentals nbsp San Diego Trolley with Blue Line Extension to UC San DiegoAdditionally since November 21 2021 the university can be accessed by the San Diego Trolley On that day the existing Blue Line was extended north from Downtown San Diego to UC San Diego and the University City area the culmination of construction starting in 2016 The extension gave the campus two trolley stations UC San Diego Health La Jolla and UC San Diego Central Campus 74 A major goal of the project is to ease traffic and parking on campus while providing more accessible transportation to nearby areas As part of the university s existing public transit partnerships all students have unlimited access to MTS regional buses and trolleys as well as most North County Transit District transportation services upon paying a transportation fee as part of registration 75 Construction edit Several facilities are currently under construction at the UC San Diego campus Most prominently the construction of new mixed use residential areas which the university calls Living and Learning Neighborhoods The neighborhoods contain residential housing classrooms lecture halls dining and occasionally underground parking The first neighborhood constructed the North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood was completed in 2020 The neighborhood currently primarily houses students from Sixth College and is located between John Muir College and Thurgood Marshall College 76 nbsp Pepper Canyon West Living amp Learning Neighborhood under construction as viewed from the UC San Diego Central Campus Station The university currently has three Living amp Learning neighborhoods under construction The soonest to open is the Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood which will house approximately 2 000 undergraduate students The neighborhood is set to be the location of Eighth College Construction began early 2022 and would take place over what were previously two parking lots The neighborhood had an anticipated opening date of Fall 2023 but was extended due to construction delays 77 The Theatre District Living amp Learning Neighborhood is currently scheduled to open between Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 78 The only currently open building is the Podemos building which contains housing as well as academic instruction rooms 79 The Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood features an underground parking garage The Pepper Canyon West Living and Learning Neighborhood is also currently under construction The neighborhood is located in the west segment of the Pepper Canyon area of the university next to the UC San Diego Central Campus Station 80 The Pepper Canyon West Living and Learning Neighborhood is expected to house 1 300 transfer students and upper division undergraduate students from all eight UC San Diego colleges in single occupancy rooms 81 The Pepper Canyon West Living amp Learning Neighborhood is expected to open Fall 2024 The Ridge Walk North Living and Learning Community is also currently under construction at UC San Diego This neighborhood is located in the easternmost portion of Thurgood Marshall College and is expected to house 2 400 undergraduate students primarily from Thurgood Marshall College Construction is estimated to finish between Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 81 In May 2023 the university announced the construction of Triton Center a new facility near University Center that will host numerous student services along with an Alumni amp Welcome Center 82 It is expected to open Winter of 2026 83 The university also has various planned and ongoing projects in other locations such as at Scripps Institution of Oceanography UC San Diego Health La Jolla and at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest These projects include renovations to Birch Aquarium A new fire station and a 30 acre science research center among many 84 In September 2023 chancellor Pradeep Khosla announced his intention to present a housing proposition to the Regents of the University of California The aforementioned housing proposition which would contain a plan house approximately 6 000 students though Khosla states he is open to changing the scale of the project The proposition is expected to reach the Regents sometime in 2024 85 If the proposition is accepted the new housing would occupy what is currently Pepper Canyon East Academics and administration editUC San Diego is a large primarily residential public research university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges that offers a four year Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degree to undergraduate students 86 The full time undergraduate program comprises the majority of enrollments at the university The university offers 125 bachelor s degree programs organized into five disciplinary divisions arts and humanities biological sciences engineering mathematics and physical sciences and social sciences 87 88 Students are also free to design special majors or engage in dual majors 89 38 of undergraduates major in the social sciences followed by 25 in biological sciences 18 in engineering 8 in sciences and math 4 in humanities and 3 in the arts 90 nbsp UC San Diego Rady School of Management and a Seventh College dormitory nbsp West exterior of the School of Global Policy and StrategyUC San Diego s comprehensive graduate program is composed of several divisions and professional schools including the Scripps Institution of Oceanography School of Medicine Institute of Engineering in Medicine School of Global Policy and Strategy Jacobs School of Engineering Rady School of Management and Skaggs School of Pharmacy The university offers 35 masters programs 47 doctoral programs five professional programs and nine joint doctoral programs with San Diego State University and other UC campuses 91 UC San Diego has highly ranked graduate programs in biological sciences and medicine 92 economics social and behavioral sciences physics and computer engineering 93 The university also offers a continuing and public education program through UC San Diego Extension 94 Approximately 50 000 enrollees per year are educated in this branch of the university 94 which offers over 100 professional and specialized certificate programs 94 Courses are offered at Extension facilities located both on the main campus and off campus and also online 94 UC San Diego Extension offers programs in Arts amp Humanities Business amp Leadership Data Analysis amp Mathematics Digital Arts Education Engineering Environment amp Sustainability International Programs Languages Law Occupational Safety amp Health Pre College Sciences Technology and Writing as well as public programs such as the UC San Diego Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Helen Edison Lecture Series 95 UC San Diego Extension also plans to open a 66 000 square foot hub at the corner of Park Boulevard and Market Street in East Village referred to as the Innovative Cultural and Education Hub The project is slated to be completed in 2020 and plans to advance the burgeoning tech ecosystem downtown contribute to the city s lively arts and culture scene and connect in multiple ways with diverse neighborhoods such as Barrio Logan the Diamond District and Golden Hill 96 97 98 Residential colleges edit nbsp Warren College contains most of the engineering buildingsUC San Diego s undergraduate division is organized into eight residential colleges each headed by its own provost They all set their own general education requirements manage separate administrative and advising staff and grant unique degrees In chronological order by date of foundation the eight colleges are Revelle College founded in 1964 as First College emphasizes a Renaissance education through the Humanities sequence which integrates history literature and philosophy It has highly structured requirements John Muir College founded in 1967 as Second College emphasizes a spirit of self sufficiency and individual choice and offers loosely structured general education requirements Thurgood Marshall College founded in 1970 as Third College emphasizes scholarship social responsibility and the belief that a liberal arts education must include an understanding of one s role in society Earl Warren College founded in 1974 as Fourth College requires students to pursue a major of their choice while also requiring two programs of concentration in disciplines unrelated to each other and their major toward a life in balance Eleanor Roosevelt College founded in 1988 as Fifth College focuses its core education program on a cross cultural interdisciplinary course sequence entitled Making of the Modern World has a foreign language requirement and encourages studying abroad Sixth College founded in 2001 has a focus on historical and philosophical connections among culture art and technology Seventh College founded in 2020 enrolled its first cohort of students in fall 2020 with the theme A Changing Planet Eighth College founded in 2021 will enroll its first cohort of students in fall 2023 with the theme of Engagement amp Community Students affiliate with a college based upon its particular philosophy and environment as majors are not exclusive to specific colleges Revelle and Sixth enroll the largest number of undergraduate students followed by Warren Muir Roosevelt and Marshall 99 Each undergraduate college sets different requirements for awarding graduation and provost s honors separate from departmental and Phi Beta Kappa honors Governance edit Main article Regents of the University of California As one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system UC San Diego is governed by a 26 member Board of Regents consisting of 18 officials appointed by the Governor of California seven ex officio members and a single student regent The current president of the University of California is Michael Drake and the administrative head of UC San Diego is Pradeep Khosla 100 Academic policies are set by the school s Academic Senate a legislative body composed of all university faculty members 101 Nine vice chancellors manage academic affairs research diversity marine sciences student affairs planning external relations business affairs and health sciences and report directly to the chancellor 102 Research edit nbsp Applied Physics and MathematicsThe Nature Index lists UC San Diego as 6th in the United States for research output by article count in 2019 103 In 2020 UC San Diego spent 1 403 billion on research the 6th highest expenditure among academic institutions in the United States 16 The university operates several organized research units including the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences CASS the Center for Drug Discovery Innovation and the Institute for Neural Computation 104 UC San Diego also maintains close ties to the nearby Scripps Research and Salk Institute for Biological Studies In 1977 UC San Diego developed and released the UCSD Pascal programming language The university was designated as one of the original national Alzheimer s disease research centers in 1984 by the National Institute on Aging 105 In 2018 UC San Diego received 10 5 million from the National Nuclear Security Administration to establish the Center for Matters under Extreme Pressure CMEC 106 The university founded the San Diego Supercomputer Center SDSC in 1985 which provides high performance computing for research in various scientific disciplines In 2000 UC San Diego partnered with UC Irvine to create the Qualcomm Institute which integrates research in photonics nanotechnology and wireless telecommunication to develop solutions to problems in energy health and the environment 107 UC San Diego also operates the Scripps Institution of Oceanography SIO one of the largest centers of research in earth science in the world which predates the university itself Together SDSC and SIO along with funding partner universities Caltech SDSU and UC Santa Barbara manage the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network 108 Rankings edit Academic rankingsNationalARWU 109 16Forbes 110 17THE WSJ 111 43U S News amp World Report 112 28Washington Monthly 113 20GlobalARWU 114 21QS 115 62THE 116 32U S News amp World Report 117 20 National Program Rankings 118 Program RankingPolitical Science 9Engineering 9Fine Arts 10Economics 12Psychology 13Earth Sciences 15Biological Sciences 16Computer Science 16Physics 17Pharmacy 18Mathematics 19Chemistry 20Medicine Research 21Medicine Primary Care 26Sociology 36History 41English 42Public Affairs 65Education 69Business 89 Global Subject Rankings 119 Program RankingPharmacology amp Toxicology 3Microbiology 5Cell Biology 6Biotechnology amp Applied Microbiology 6Biology amp Biochemistry 8Molecular Biology amp Genetics 9Neuroscience amp Behavior 12Geosciences 18Immunology 19Clinical Medicine 19Computer Science 21Psychiatry Psychology 23Radiology Nuclear Medicine amp Medical Imaging 27Plant amp Animal Science 28Public Environmental amp Occupational Health 28Endocrinology amp Metabolism 30Social Sciences amp Public Health 32Oncology 41Infectious Diseases 51Arts amp Humanities 52Chemistry 52Engineering 54Surgery 56Materials Science 61Economics amp Business 66Cardiac amp Cardiovascular Systems 69Physics 72Nanoscience amp Nanotechnology 73Environment Ecology 78Mathematics 88Electrical amp Electronic Engineering 91Civil Engineering 97Space Science 112Energy amp Fuels 179 National rankings edit UC San Diego is ranked 5th as Best Public University by Academic Ranking of World Universities 120 and 16th in the U S by the Center for World University Rankings 121 Washington Monthly ranked the university 12th in its 2021 National University ranking based on its contribution to the public good as measured by social mobility research and promoting public service UC San Diego ranked fifth in the nation in terms of research and development expenditures in 2018 with 1 265 billion spent 122 Kiplinger in 2014 ranked UC San Diego 14th out of the top 100 best value public colleges and universities in the nation and 3rd in California 123 UC San Diego was ranked tied for 35th among national universities in the United States and tied for 8th among public universities by U S News amp World Report s 2021 rankings 124 ScienceWatch ranks UC San Diego 7th of federally funded U S universities based on the citation impact of their published research in major fields of science and the social sciences and 12th globally by volume of citations 125 126 Global rankings edit nbsp Jacobs Medical Center as seen from the southwest pathRecognized as a Public Ivy UC San Diego is a highly regarded research institution ranked 11th in the world by the Nature Index 127 14th in the world by the Scrimago Institutions Rankings 128 14th in the world by the Lens Metric 129 14th best university in the world according to TBS Rankings 130 16th in U S News amp World Report s 2017 global university rankings 131 15th in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities 132 16th best university in the world by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies of Leiden University Ranking 133 18th in the world by the Center for World University Rankings 134 18th in the world by University Ranking by Academic Performance 135 and 5th best public university in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 136 The University of California San Diego is ranked 15th by the Academic Ranking of World Universities 120 and is ranked 17th Best University in the World by the Center for World University Rankings for 2016 121 U S News amp World Report named UC San Diego the 15th best university in the world for 2017 for research global and regional reputation international collaboration and several highly cited papers 131 In 2017 UC San Diego was ranked 30th in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 137 UC San Diego was also ranked 38th overall in the world and 11th in biological sciences 16th in life sciences and medicine 19th in economics and econometrics 31st in mathematics and 44th in computer science and information systems by QS World University Rankings 138 In 2015 the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University named UC San Diego 16th in the world for scientific impact 139 Graduate school rankings edit The UC San Diego School of Medicine is ranked tied for 18th for research and 12th for primary care in the 2018 U S News amp World Report rankings 140 The Rady School of Management at UC San Diego is ranked 17th in the world for faculty research and 8th for alumni entrepreneurship in the 2014 Financial Times Global MBA 141 In 2014 the Rady School ranked 1st in the nation in intellectual capital by Bloomberg Businessweek which measured faculty research published in the top 20 business journals from 2009 to 2013 142 UC San Diego was named 8th in the nation among doctoral institutions for the number of students who study abroad for a full academic year according to the Institute of International Education Open Doors report 143 Three doctoral programs at UC San Diego biological sciences bioengineering and Scripps Institution of Oceanography are 1st in the nation in the National Research Council s Data Based Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs report 144 Departmental rankings edit Departmental rankings including specialties in the national top 10 according to the 2018 U S News amp World Report Best Graduate Schools 145 report include biomedical engineering bioengineering 2nd neuroscience neurobiology 2nd biochemistry 10th discrete mathematics and combinatorics 3rd plasma physics 7th econometrics 4th public finance 8th political science 9th international politics 4th comparative politics 4th behavioral neuroscience 4th cognitive psychology 8th and time based media new media 3rd Departmental rankings in the global top 10 according to the 2015 U S News amp World Report Best Graduate Schools report 146 include biology and biochemistry 6th molecular biology and genetics 8th neuroscience and behavior 6th pharmacology and toxicology 5th and psychiatry and psychology 8th Departmental rankings in the global top 20 according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities ARWU 147 for 2015 include chemistry 18th computer science 14th and economics business 19th Since introduced in 2017 the ARWU Subject Rankings has ranked mechanical engineering at UC San Diego as the top 1st public university program in the US 2017 2020 Mechanical engineering at UC San Diego has also consistently ranked as a top 5 US overall and a top 10 program worldwide since the introduction of subject rankings by ARWU 148 Departmental rankings in the global top 20 according to the QS World University Rankings for 2015 include earth and marine sciences 13th 149 biological sciences 14th 150 economics and econometrics 18th 151 and pharmacy and pharmacology 20th 152 Additional rankings within the global top 40 include politics and international studies 21st 153 medicine 22nd 154 mathematics 28th 155 linguistics 31st 156 and electrical engineering 34th 157 ScienceWatch placed UC San Diego 1st in social psychology 158 2nd in oceanography 159 3rd in international relations 160 5th in molecular biology and genetics 161 162 17th in engineering 163 and 18th in Neuroscience and Behavior 164 using non survey quantitative based metrics to determine research impact The Hollywood Reporter has ranked UC San Diego s graduate theatre program among the top ten drama schools in 2016 6th 2017 5th 2018 4th 2019 3rd 2020 3rd and 2021 5th also ranking the undergraduate theatre program as one of the top five in the nation in 2018 165 166 167 168 Admissions edit Fall Freshman Statistics 169 170 171 172 2022 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012Applicants 131 229 99 133 97 899 88 456 84 208 78 056 73 440 67 400 60 805Admitted 31 102 32 062 29 577 30 204 30 028 26 509 24 595 24 832 22 963Admit rate 23 7 32 3 30 2 34 1 36 0 34 0 33 5 36 8 37 8 Enrolled 6 547 6 021 6 704 5 699 5 746 5 292 4 922 5 228 4 573Average GPA 4 21 4 08 4 07 4 08 4 05 4 08 4 08 4 06 4 00SAT range Test Blind 1250 1470 1300 1520 NA 1750 2073 1800 2150 1760 2110 1750 2080 1750 2070ACT range Test Blind 24 33 28 34 26 31 26 31 27 32 26 32 26 31 26 31UC San Diego is categorized by U S News amp World Report as most selective for college admissions ratings within the United States 173 For the Fall 2022 admissions cycle the school received 150 963 applications from both freshman and transfer applicants Of those 150 963 applications 131 229 applications were from prospective freshman with UC San Diego granting admission to just 31 102 applicants almost 9 000 fewer than the previous year giving the institution an acceptance rate of 23 7 for the fall 2022 admission cycle citation needed In 2009 UC San Diego mistakenly sent Admit Day welcome emails to all its 47 000 freshmen applicants instead of just the 17 000 who had been admitted 174 However school officials quickly realized the mistake and sent an apology email within two hours 175 Graduate admissions are largely centralized through the Office of Graduate Studies However the Rady School of Management Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the School of Global Policy and Strategy GPS handle their own admissions For Fall 2012 the UC San Diego School of Medicine offered admission to 5 of its applicants 176 Student life editUndergraduate demographics as of Fall 2020 Race and ethnicity 177 TotalAsian 33 33 Hispanic 22 22 White 19 19 Foreign national 17 17 Other a 7 7 Black 2 2 Economic diversityLow income b 33 33 Affluent c 67 67 In all the university offers classical orchestras intramural sports and over 550 student organizations 178 179 38 national and local Greek organizations are hosted on campus 180 with fraternity and sorority members representing 20 of the student population 181 The university operates on an academic quarter system with three primary quarters beginning in late September and ending in mid June 182 44 of undergraduate students receive federal Pell Grants 183 The undergraduate student body government is the Associated Students of the University of California San Diego organized as a cabinet and senate 184 185 while graduate students are represented by the Graduate Student Association a proportional representative body with membership depending on the number of students in each graduate department 186 Additionally graduate students who serve as teaching assistants are represented by the UC wide union of Academic Student Employees Each of the eight residential colleges has its own student council as well Most student media publications distributed on campus are services provided and governed by ASUCSD including Triton Television 187 the school s student run film studio and the KSDT radio station 188 A notable exception is The Guardian which is directly governed by the university s Student Affairs department nbsp Price CenterPrice Center often referred to as PC is the main student hub and is located in the center of campus just south of Geisel Library The building houses multiple restaurants the central bookstore a movie theater and office space for student organizations organization advisers and university faculty 189 A student referendum was passed in 2003 to expand the Price Center to nearly double its original size The Price Center East expansion was officially opened to the public on May 19 2008 190 There are also three campus centers that cultivate a sense of community among faculty staff and certain students the Cross Cultural Center the Women s Center and the LGBT Resource Center UC San Diego was the last UC campus to have such centers All three especially the Cross Cultural Center that was created first were founded in the mid 1990s as a result of student movements that demanded change despite opposition by the campus administration 191 The Che Cafe is a student worker cooperative and social center that is perhaps best known for its role as a venue for underground music scene 192 It is an on and off again vegan cafe and catering operation as well The Che also acts as a resource for the music and art departments on campus through hosting art shows performances and film screenings Some of the most notable touring bands or musicians who have played at the Che include Bon Iver Green Day Rise Against Jimmy Eat World Matt amp Kim Billy Corgan Blonde Redhead Bomb the Music Industry The Get Up Kids Deerhoof Bright Eyes Chumbawamba Mike Watt Hella Dan Deacon Unwound and Jawbreaker Prominent local San Diego bands such as The Locust and Pinback and national tours such as Mates of State and The Dillinger Escape Plan have given the Che Cafe some fame and praise as a radical vegan collective despite its small size and limited sound equipment 193 nbsp The June 2007 Watermelon Drop an annual tradition at Revelle CollegeTraditions edit The student body government coordinates a wide variety of concerts and events during the year UC San Diego begins the fall quarter with Welcome Week to introduce new students to campus clubs and activities 194 starting the week with the All Campus Dance The Hullabaloo music festival takes place every November as part of the university s Founders Celebration Bear Garden a carnival held near Price Center takes place every quarter throughout the year Additionally events are frequently held at the Loft a performance lounge within Price Center 195 The Sun God Festival named after the statue part of the Stuart Collection is the largest and most significant event of the year held annually in mid May on the seventh week of the spring quarter citation needed The festival has grown over its 30 year history into a 20 000 person event featuring an eclectic mix of art dance and musical performances Past performers have included Kendrick Lamar Porter Robinson Macklemore Silversun Pickups Wiz Khalifa Drake T I Third Eye Blind Ludacris Michelle Branch Sara Bareilles The Roots My Chemical Romance and Joji The 2017 festival featured ScHoolboy Q DJ Mustard Bad Suns Manila Killa and Khalid 196 Two other popular campus traditions are the Pumpkin Drop and the Watermelon Drop which take place during Halloween and at the end of the spring quarter respectively 197 The Watermelon Drop is one of the campus oldest traditions famously originating in 1965 from a physics exam question centering on the velocity on impact of a dropped object A group of intrigued students pursued that line of thought by dropping a watermelon from the top floor of Revelle s Urey Hall to measure the distance from the splat to the farthest travelling piece of fruit A variety of events surround the Watermelon Drop including a pageant where an occasionally male but generally female Watermelon Queen is elected The Pumpkin Drop is a similar event celebrated by the dropping of a large candy filled pumpkin from 11 story Tioga Hall the tallest residential building on the Muir college campus Housing edit The eight undergraduate residential colleges have separate unique housing facilities for their students First year students are usually housed in the residence halls while upperclassmen live in the college apartments Transfer students are housed in separate facilities from the residential colleges in an area called The Village at Pepper Canyon 198 The housing facilities vary in design though nearly all of them are of modern or brutalist style The vast majority of entering freshmen and about 40 percent of all undergraduates in Fall 2012 chose to live in campus residence halls or apartments 199 Graduate students can choose to live in one of six apartment complexes apart from undergraduate housing citation needed Three of these facilities are several minutes away from UC San Diego while the remaining are located on university grounds Each residential college comes with a separate unique philosophy general education writing sequence and events on top of having separate housing facilities College 200 Founded Motto Emphasis Writing Sequence Dining Hall 201 FestivalRevelle College 1964 Purpose Truth Vision Renaissance education Humanities HUM 64 Degrees Watermelon Drop Festival RevellutionJohn Muir College 1967 Celebrating the Independent Spirit Individual Choice Muir College Writing Program MCWP Pines MuirstockThurgood Marshall College 1970 Developing the Scholar and the Citizen Social responsibility Dimensions of Culture DOC OceanView MarshallpaloozaEarl Warren College 1974 Toward a life of balance Balanced education Warren Writing Ethics WCWP Canyon Vista Warren Live Eleanor Roosevelt College 1988 Developing World Citizens Through Scholarship Leadership and Service International studies Making of the Modern World MMW Ventanas Rockin RooseveltSixth College 2001 Preparing Effective Citizens for the 21st Century Connections between Culture art and technology Culture Art and Technology CAT Restaurants at Sixth College Chocolate Festival KuncocshunSeventh College 2020 A Changing Planet Environmental sustainability Synthesis SYN The Bistro N AEighth College 2021 Engagement amp Community Solving issues within the local community and beyond Critical Community Engagement CCE N A N AAccommodations are made for students with specific needs Undergraduate couples and families have the option of living in housing facilities that are normally available only to graduate students 202 The university also dedicates a portion of its facilities for those who wish to live in gender neutral or LGBT housing 203 Reflecting UC San Diego s diversity International House a complex of apartments located in Eleanor Roosevelt College is dedicated to cross cultural exchange between American and international students housing about 350 students from more than 30 countries 204 International learning is fostered through formal programs including current affairs discussions cultural nights and a community newsletter Upper division undergraduates from all eight colleges graduate students faculty and researchers are eligible to live in International House located in the Eleanor Roosevelt College townhouses Demand is very high for this special program and there is often a waitlist Spaces in International House are not guaranteed and admission requires a separate application 205 Housing plans also offer students access to dining facilities which were named by PETA as the most vegan friendly in the United States 206 Each student is allotted a certain number of Dining Dollars to purchase meals at any dining hall and groceries at any on campus market Distinct dining halls are located at each of the eight colleges except for Eighth College with markets located adjacent or near them except at Eleanor Roosevelt College which shares a marketplace with Seventh College In addition to the dining halls there are also four specialty dining facilities and two food trucks on campus that accept dining dollars As of July 2022 update UC San Diego had 18 022 beds of student housing inventory giving it the third highest capacity in the United States behind Penn State and UCLA 207 The university currently offers two years guaranteed housing to both its incoming freshmen and its incoming transfer students 208 and it intends to reach a capacity that will enable it to offer a four year housing guarantee 207 Greek life edit UC San Diego boasts a large Greek community and supports several fraternities and sororities each belonging to one of three different governing councils Social fraternities belong to the Interfraternity Council while social sororities belong to the Panhellenic Council 209 Fraternities IFC 210 Sororities PHC 211 Alpha Epsilon Pi Beta Theta Pi Kappa Sigma Lambda Chi Alpha Phi Delta Theta Phi Gamma Delta Pi Kappa Alpha Pi Kappa Phi Sigma Alpha Mu Sigma Nu Sigma Phi Epsilon Tau Kappa Epsilon Triangle Alpha Chi Omega Alpha Epsilon Phi Alpha Omicron Pi Alpha Phi Chi Omega Delta Delta Delta Delta Gamma Kappa Alpha Theta Kappa Kappa Gamma Phi Sigma Rho Pi Beta Phi Sigma KappaThe university also sponsors a Multicultural Greek Council MGC which currently recognizes 8 fraternities and 7 sororities 212 Fraternities MGC Sororities MGC Alpha Epsilon Omega Delta Lambda Phi Gamma Zeta Alpha Phi Iota Alpha Nu Alpha Kappa Pi Alpha Phi Psi Chi Omega Lambda Phi Epsilon Alpha Gamma Alpha Kappa Zeta Phi Lambda Theta Nu Phi Lambda Rho Sigma Alpha Zeta Sigma Omicron Pi Sigma Pi AlphaGreek life at UC San Diego is unique in comparison to other universities in that Greek organizations do not have chapter houses 213 Athletics editMain article UC San Diego Tritons Men s sports Women s sportsBaseball BasketballBasketball Cross CountryCross Country FencingFencing RowingGolf SoccerRowing SoftballSoccer Swimming amp DivingSwimming amp Diving TennisTennis Track amp FieldTrack amp Field VolleyballVolleyball Water PoloWater PoloOn November 27 2017 the university announced that its athletic programs have begun a 6 year transition process from NCAA Division II to Division I where it will be a member of the Big West Conference 214 As of 2017 most of UC San Diego s 23 intercollegiate varsity athletic teams still participate in Division II 12 member California Collegiate Athletic Association and some compete independently The water polo fencing and men s volleyball teams compete as part of Division I conferences 215 Before joining Division II in 2000 the school participated at the Division III level 216 The teams compete at the university s RIMAC facility Triton Ballpark and RIMAC Arena University of California San Diego was ranked 1 among all NCAA D2 schools in the country and 40 overall for all divisions according to the Next College Student Athlete s 2018 NCSA Power Rankings 217 The NCSA Power Rankings recognize the best colleges and universities in the U S for student athletes 218 UC San Diego athletics also ranked 1 in men s and women s soccer women s volleyball men s and women s basketball men s and women s swimming men s and women s track and field men s and women s tennis men s golf women s rowing softball and baseball among all NCAA D2 schools Additionally UC San Diego ranked 1 in Men s Water Polo and Men s Volleyball among NCAA D1 schools 219 nbsp The Tritons softball team in 2013In all the Tritons have won a total of 30 national championships in golf soccer softball tennis volleyball and water polo 220 The 2006 07 season was marked as UC San Diego s best since moving to Division II with 19 athletic programs qualifying for post season competition including 17 for the NCAA Championships Eight of those teams finished with a top five national ranking 221 nbsp Athletic mascot the TritonUntil 2007 UC San Diego was the only Division II school that did not offer athletic scholarships In 2005 the NCAA created a rule that made it mandatory for all D II programs to award athletic grants Consequently a measure was proposed to begin offering 500 grants in aid to all 600 intercollegiate athletes in order to meet this requirement A student referendum was passed in February 2007 authorizing a 329 annual student fee to fund a raise in coaches salaries hire more trainers and provide all athletes with a 500 scholarship 222 The athletic department considered a move to Division I in 2011 The student body would have needed to approve a doubling of student fees to allow the university to meet minimum scholarship requirements for D I participation However students overwhelmingly rejected this measure in 2012 halting any efforts for a move to Division I at that time 223 On May 24 2016 students at UC San Diego passed the vote to move their athletics to NCAA Division I The school s newspaper The Guardian reported that voter turnout was 35 percent of the undergraduate population when the measure only needed 20 percent to pass 224 The university offers 30 sports club teams including badminton baseball cycling dancesport ice hockey lacrosse rugby sailing soccer snow skiing tennis volleyball ultimate water polo and waterskiing 225 The UC San Diego surf team has won the national championship six times and is consistently rated one of the best surfing programs in the United States 226 UC San Diego does not have a football team However the university participated in intercollegiate football for one year during the 1968 season The newly recruited Tritons lost all seven games that they played 227 Alumni editMain article List of University of California San Diego people Notable UC San Diego living alumni include 228 nbsp Angela DavisAmerican professor known for her political activism establishment of the Critical Resistance and speeches on social justice MA Philosophy nbsp Kuan Chung mingTaiwanese Former Minister of the National Development Council and the Council for Economic Planning and Development Professor of Finance at National Taiwan University PhD Economics nbsp Mike JudgePrimetime Emmy Award winner and creator of Beavis and Butt Head King of the Hill and Silicon Valley BS Physics nbsp Billy BeaneOwner of the Oakland Athletics former professional MLB athlete and known for his depiction in Moneyball BA Economics nbsp Craig VenterProfessor of Genomics at Buffalo known for sequencing the second human genome contributing to the Human Genome Project and establishing The Institute for Genomic Research BS amp PhD Biomedical Sciences nbsp Khaled HosseiniPhysician known for setting forth medicine in Afghanistan for the George W Bush administration the United Nations and production of novels such as The Kite Runner MD Medicine nbsp Nick WoodmanFounder and chief executive officer of GoPro Former investor in Shark Tank and known for his philanthropy within the Silicon Valley Community Foundation BA Visual Arts nbsp Susumu TonegawaWinner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine Founder of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT Former director of the RIKEN Brain Science Institute PhD Biology nbsp David J PetersonAmerican language creator writer and artist who 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