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University of California, San Diego

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The University of California, San Diego is one of the state's biggest universities. More popularly known as UCSD, this public, coeducational university in La Jolla is one of the 10 campuses of the University of California. It was founded in 1960.

General Information

Located in La Jolla, California, UCSD stands on 1,152 acres of suburban land.

As of 2006, this public university had a total endowment of US$351.6 million. Its total student population is about 26,000, including 21,369 undergraduates and 4,878 postgraduates. The university has a faculty of 1,471.

The university's current chancellor is Marye Anne Fox. Its official colors are navy blue and gold. In athletics, UCSD has 23 varsity teams. Their affiliations are AAU (Academic) and WUN (Athletic).

Programs and Facilities

UCSD has six colleges, namely Roger Revelle College (founded as First College in 1964), John Muir College (founded as Second College in 1967), Thurgood Marshall College (founded as Third College in 1970), Earl Warren College (founded as Fourth College in 1974), Eleanor Roosevelt College (founded as Fifth College in 1988) and Sixth College (founded in 2002). Regardless of their undergraduate college, UCSD students can major in any of its disciplines.

Aside from the six colleges, UCSD also divides its courses and programs by divisions, and there are six of them: the Division of Arts and Humanities, Jacobs School of Engineering, Division of Physical Sciences, Division of Biological Sciences and Division of Social Sciences

UCSD also has six graduate and professional schools. These are the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, Graduate Studies, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Moreover, UCSD has four research centers and a charter school. The four research centers are the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Magnetic Recording Research and California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. The charter school, known as the Preuss School, was established in 1999 to help prepare students from low-income families in San Diego prepare for college.

In terms of undergraduate housing, UCSD has patterned its residential colleges after the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. Each college has its own campus, residences and offices.

Reputation

In 2006, Newsweek magazine dubbed UCSD as "Hottest for Science" in its review of "America's 25 Hottest Colleges." The publication took note of the school's tradition, research grants, diverse topics of study and tradition.

In 2007, US News and World Report gave high marks to two of UCSD's premier graduate schools: ranked the graduate School of Medicine as number 14 among all US colleges and universities for medical research and number 33 for primary care, while the graduate program in behavioral neuroscience was ranked number two in its category and its cognitive psychology program as number three in its category.

The same report placed the Jacobs School of Engineering as number 11 overall and number six among public universities. In addition, each of the Jacobs School's five academic departments were ranked in the top 20. The report ranked UCSD's Department of Bioengineering as number two for biomedical engineering, trailing only Johns Hopkins. This department has consistently placed among the top five programs in the US in this category every year in the last 10 years.

Other notable recognitions bestowed upon UCSD by the 2007 US News and World Report are as follows: the Department of Computer Science and Engineering ranked number nine in computer systems, number 13 in computer science, number 14 in theory, number 17 in programming language and number 19 in artificial intelligence; the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, number 16 in mechanical engineering and number 19 in aerospace engineering; the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, number 16 in electrical engineering and communications, number 17 in computer engineering; and the Department of Structural Engineering, number 17 in civil engineering. In addition, UCSD's interdisciplinary Bioinformatics program was number six in the US.

Moreover, also in 2006, the annual US News and World Report ranked UCSD's undergraduate program as number 32 among all the colleges and universities in the Unites States and number seven among public universities. When ranged among California's other public universities, UCSA ranked only behind Berkeley and UCLA.

In terms of quality of scientific research leading towards a Nobel Prize, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities (2006) placed UCSD as number 11 among all colleges and universities in the United States and number 13 in the world. That same year, the Washington Monthly ranked UCSD as number six in the US in terms of "community service in addition to conventional criteria" and Kiplinger's ranked UCSD number 11 in terms of “First-Class Education at Bargain Prices." A year earlier, The Times Higher Education Supplement in its own global ranking p[aced UCSD as number 42 in the world overall as well as number 14 for biomedicine number 48 for science.

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