University Of California-San Diego

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a large city.

Overview

The University of California, San Diego was established in 1960 and is also referred as UC San Diego or UCSD. The university contains 694 buildings and covers more than 1,000-acres of coastal woodland in San Diego, California. UCSD offers more than 120 undergraduate majors and 50 masters degrees and doctoral programs.

UCSD is organized into the following academic divisions:

• Revelle College
• John Muir College
• Thurgood Marshall College
• Earl Warren College
• Eleanor Roosevelt College
• Sixth College

The UCSD Alumni Association was founded in 1964 and comprises over 116,000 members. Some of the notable alumni of the university are Russell Shanks, the Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer of Sony Online Entertainment; Guy “Bud” Tribble, the chief architect of the original Macintosh computer and co-founder of NeXt, Inc.; and Al Zollar, the President and CEO of Lotus Technologies, Inc.

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

• Many students concentrating in science, therapy and counseling, engineering, mathematics, liberal arts, drama and performing arts, and computer science and engineering.
• Large number of programs of study offered.
• High faculty salary.
• Large number of students.
• High SAT scores (combined Verbal and Math).
• Selective admissions.
• Number of dorm rooms for students.
• Racially diverse student body.
• High male/female ratio.

School characteristics:

• The school is public.
• Academic calender: Quarter.
• Carnegie classification: Doctoral/Research Universities, Extensive.

Features of note:

• The school offers a faculty tenure system.
• There is a hospital on campus.
• There are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Campus housing is available.
• Students may study abroad.
• Part-time classes are available.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 27,520 in 2009-2010 (28,688 full-time equivalent).

About 44% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 56% of the class.

Undergrads are 82% of enrolled students, graduate students are 15%, and those seeking first-professional graduate degrees represent 3%.

Students under 25 years old represent 82% of the student body. About 1% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Among freshmen students, 100% are full-time and 0% are part-time.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

UC San Diego provides on-campus housing for 11,197 of its 28,688 (full-time) students (as of 2009-2010).

Athletics

The school is in the Division II Independents for major sports.

Graduate School Focus

UC San Diego offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Doctorate (Research/Scholarship & Professional Practice).

Graduate offerings include continuing professional education and medical degrees.The school's Graduate School Carnegie Classification is Comprehensive Doctoral With Medical/Veterinary.

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

ART STUDIES (107 awarded)

• Visual and Performing Arts

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (395 awarded)

• Business Administration and Management
• Management Science

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (269 awarded)

• Computer Engineering
• Computer Science

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (47 awarded)

• Environmental Studies

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (64 awarded)

• Dance
• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (118 awarded)

• Education
• Educational Leadership and Administration
• Mathematics Teacher Education

ENGINEERING (1,001 awarded)

• Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
• Biomedical/Medical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
• Engineering Physics
• Engineering Science
• Engineering
• Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Systems Engineering

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (81 awarded)

• Human Development and Family Studies

FINE ARTS (69 awarded)

• Art History, Criticism and Conservation
• Fine/Studio Arts

LAW (1 awarded)

• Health Law (LLM, MJ, JSD/SJD)

LIBERAL ARTS (1,862 awarded)

• American Government and Politics (United States)
• Anthropology
• Area Studies
• Chinese Studies
• Classics/Classical Languages, Lit & Linguistics
• Comparative Literature
• Economics
• English Language and Literature
• English Language and Literature/Letters
• Ethnic, Cultural Minority, and Gender Studies
• French Language and Literature
• German Studies
• History
• International Relations and Affairs
• International/Global Studies
• Italian Studies
• Japanese Studies
• Latin American Studies
• Linguistics
• Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies
• Political Science and Government
• Russian Studies
• Sociology
• Spanish Language and Literature
• Urban Studies/Affairs

MATHEMATICS (161 awarded)

• Applied Mathematics
• Mathematics and Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Statistics

MEDIA (280 awarded)

• Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoric
• Communication and Media Studies

MEDICAL SUPPORT AND TECHNOLOGY (12 awarded)

• Audiology/Audiologist and Hearing Sciences

MEDICINE (193 awarded)

• Medical Scientist (MS, PhD)
• Medicine (MD)
• Neuroscience
• Pharmacy (PharmD [USA], PharmD or BS/BPharm [Canada])
• Public Health, General (MPH, DPH)

MUSIC (42 awarded)

• Music Performance
• Music

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (48 awarded)

• Philosophy
• Religion/Religious Studies

SCIENCE (1,810 awarded)

• Anatomy
• Animal Physiology
• Biochemistry
• Bioinformatics
• Biology/Biological Sciences
• Biomedical Sciences
• Biophysics
• Chemical Physics
• Chemistry
• Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology
• Epidemiology
• Geochemistry
• Geology/Earth Science
• Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography
• Microbiology
• Molecular Biology
• Neurobiology and Neurophysiology
• Oceanography, Chemical and Physical
• Pathology/Experimental Pathology
• Physical Sciences
• Physics

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (588 awarded)

• Clinical Psychology
• Cognitive Science
• Psychology