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UCSD - YOUNGEST OF THE BEST
UC SAN DIEGO INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS
UCSD: THE INSTITUTION
Innovation is our tradition: Nestled along the Pacific Ocean on 1,200 acres of coastal woodland,
UCSD is a powerful magnet for those seeking a fresh, next-generation approach to education and
research. Since its founding four decades ago, UCSD is one of the ten campuses in the worldrenowned
University of California system and has rapidly achieved the status as one of the top
institutions in the nation for higher education and research. UCSD’s interdisciplinary ethos and
tradition of innovation and risk-taking, underlie its research strength and ability to recruit top
scholars and students.
Students: The average high school GPA of admitted freshmen was 4.05, and average SATI score
was 1300. UCSD ranks 2nd nationally among major research universities sending students abroad
in full-year programs, and 4th in the nation in graduation rates, at 79%.
Specialized Resources: UCSD’s graduate and professional schools include Scripps Institution
of Oceanography; School of Medicine; School of International Relations and Pacific Studies;
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Jacobs School of Engineering (graduate and
undergraduate), and Rady School of Management. The campus also is home to the San Diego
Supercomputer Center; California Institute for Information Technology and Telecommunications;
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts; Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and
Institute of the Americas.
The Birch Aquarium at the Scripps
Oceanography Institution.
UCSD: ACADEMIC RANKINGS
The National Research Council ranks UCSD 10th in the nation in the quality of its faculty and
graduate programs. (The top ten, in rank order, are: UC Berkeley, MIT, Harvard, Princeton,
Stanford, CalTech, Yale, Chicago, Cornell and UCSD.) The NRC ranks oceanography and
neurosciences 1st in the nation.
UCSD ranks 6th in the nation in National Academy of Sciences membership while also being
ranked as the 7th best public university in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report.
A U.S. News and World Report survey of graduate programs ranks the Jacobs School of Engineering
13th in the nation and 7th among public engineering schools, and the School of Medicine as 17th
among medical schools with a research focus, and 6th among public schools. In Master of Fine
Arts programs, UCSD’s multimedia/visual communications program ranked 6th in the nation.
The most recent US News rankings also place these programs in the nation’s top 10: Theatre and
Dance (3rd); Bioengineering (3rd); Political Science (7th); Cellular and Developmental Biology
(8th); Biochemistry (9th); Molecular Biology (10th), and Neurosciences (10th).
UCSD: CURRENT FACULTY HONORS
Nobel Prize: George E. Palade, 1974, physiology/medicine; Renato Dulbecco, 1975, physiology/
medicine; Harry Markowitz, 1990, economics; Paul Crutzen, 1995, chemistry; Mario J. Molina,
1995, chemistry; Sydney Brenner, 2002, medicine; Clive W.J. Granger and Robert F. Engle, 2003,
economics.
Fields Medal: Professor of mathematics Efim Zelmanov.
Balzan Prize: Freeman Gilbert, SIO professor (1990), and Wolfgang Berger, SIO professor
(1993).
National Medal of Science: Astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge and oceanographer Walter Munk
(1985); physician/scientist George Palade (1986); nuclear physicist Marshall N. Rosenbluth
(1998); bioengineer Yuan-Chen Fung (2000), and oceanographer Charles D. Keeling (2002).
National Humanities Medal: Latin American history scholar Ramon Eduardo Ruiz (1998)
Pulitzer Prize: Roger Reynolds (1989) Music.
Kyoto Prize: Oceanographer Walter Munk (1999)
Enrico Fermi Award: Physicist Herbert F. York (2000).
MacArthur Foundation Awards: Guillermo Algaze, anthropology; Patricia Churchland,
philosophy; Ramon Gutierrez, history and ethnic studies; Edwin Hutchins, cognitive science;
Russell Lande, biology; George Lewis, music; and Michael Schudson, communications.
Geisel Library in the heart of the
UCSD Campus
The Pier at the Scripps Oceanography
Institution.