University Of California-Santa Barbara

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a medium-sized suburb.

Overview

The University of California, Santa Barbara, was established in 1905 as an independent teachers' college. In 1944, it became part of the University of California system. The University of California is also referred as UC Santa Barbara or UCSB and is the third-oldest general-education campus of the University of California system. UCSB encompasses 989 acres of land in Santa Barbara, California, and has its own beach and lagoon.

The academic division of UCSB is organized into a number of schools and colleges, such as:

• College of Creative Studies
• College of Engineering
• College of Letters and Science
• Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
• The Gevirtz Graduate School

At the under-graduate level, UCSB has 53% white students, 20% Hispanic and Chicano students, 17% Asian American and Pacific Islander, 3% African American, 1.2% International students, and 0.9% American Indian students (as of 2007).

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

• Many students concentrating in religion and philosophy, photography and commercial art, drama and performing arts, therapy and counseling, conservation and resource management, mathematics, science, liberal arts, and fine arts.
• High faculty salary.
• Large number of programs of study offered.
• Large number of students.
• High SAT scores (combined Verbal and Math).
• Number of dorm rooms for students.
• Selective admissions.

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 are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Campus housing is available.
• Students have meal (board) plans.
• Students may study abroad.
• Distance learning is available.
• Part-time classes are available.
• ROTC.
• Athlete financial aid is awarded.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 21,868 in 2009-2010 (23,118 full-time equivalent).

About 45% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 55% of the class.

Undergrads are 86% of enrolled students and graduate students are 14%.

Students under 25 years old represent 88% of the student body. About 1% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Among freshmen students, 99% are full-time and 1% are part-time.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

UC Santa Barbara provides on-campus housing for 7,300 of its 23,118 (full-time) students (as of 2009-2010).

Students may purchase a meal plan which includes 19 meals weekly.

Athletics

The school is in the Big West Conference for major sports.

The school offers financial aid for athletes. Of students receiving athletic financial aid, 160 male students received the aid (men were 55% of those receiving aid) and 131 women were awarded financial aid based on athletics (representing 45% of students receiving such aid) .

Graduate School Focus

UC Santa Barbara offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Doctorate (Research/Scholarship).

The school's Graduate School Carnegie Classification is Comprehensive Doctoral (No Medical/Veterinary).

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

ART STUDIES (6 awarded)

• Art/Art Studies

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (609 awarded)

• Business/Managerial Economics

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (122 awarded)

• Computer Engineering
• Computer Science

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (191 awarded)

• Environmental Science
• Environmental Studies

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (65 awarded)

• Dance
• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (174 awarded)

• Education
• Educational Leadership and Administration

ENGINEERING (340 awarded)

• Chemical Engineering
• Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
• Materials Science
• Mechanical Engineering

FINE ARTS (175 awarded)

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

LAW (85 awarded)

• Legal Studies

LIBERAL ARTS (2,207 awarded)

• African-American/Black Studies
• Anthropology
• Area Studies
• Asian Studies/Civilization
• Asian-American Studies
• Chinese Language and Literature
• Classics/Classical Languages, Lit & Linguistics
• Comparative Literature
• Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
• Economics
• English Language and Literature
• Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• French Language and Literature
• Geography
• Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Hispanic-American,Puerto Rican & Mexican-American/Chicano Studies
• History
• International/Global Studies
• Italian Studies
• Japanese Language and Literature
• Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
• Linguistics
• Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies
• Near and Middle Eastern Studies
• Political Science and Government
• Portuguese Language and Literature
• Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Sociology
• Spanish Language and Literature
• Women's Studies

MATHEMATICS (126 awarded)

• Applied Mathematics
• Mathematics
• Statistics

MEDIA (303 awarded)

• Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoric

MUSIC (39 awarded)

• Music Theory and Composition
• Music

PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMMERCIAL ART (166 awarded)

• Film/Cinema Studies

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (159 awarded)

• Philosophy
• Religion/Religious Studies

SCIENCE (661 awarded)

• Aquatic Biology/Limnology
• Biochemistry
• Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
• Biology/Biological Sciences
• Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences
• Chemistry
• Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology
• Geology/Earth Science
• Geophysics and Seismology
• Hydrology and Water Resources Science
• Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography
• Microbiology
• Pharmacology
• Physics
• Physiology
• Zoology/Animal Biology

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (468 awarded)

• Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology
• Psychology