University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. The university, one of ten University of California campuses, was founded in 1959 around the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Academics

In 1995, the National Research Council ranked UCSD faculty the 10th best in the nation, and ranked numerous graduate programs among the top ten in the United States in terms of quality: neurosciences (1st), oceanography (1st), bioengineering (2nd), physiology (2nd), pharmacology (3rd), theatre and dance (3rd), genetics (6th), geosciences (6th), cell and developmental biology (7th), anthropology (9th), biochemistry and molecular biology (2nd), political science (2nd), aerospace engineering (10th), and mechanical engineering (10th). UCSD also counts among its research centers the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography - San Diego Supercomputer Center

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UCSD's biological science related research, aided by a strong local biotechnology sector, is especially well-respected.

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The 2004 Princeton Review and Fiske Guide to Colleges 2004 both ranked UCSD's admissions as "most selective", although this is a superlative description generously used throughout their assessments of other colleges. The US News rankings placed the university 32nd in the nation and 7th among public universities in the doctoral research category. Compared to other public universities in California, UCSD is ranked third, behind Berkeley and UCLA. However, in the 2005 Academic Ranking of World Universities, released by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, UCSD is ranked 13th in the world - one spot ahead of UCLA, but still trailing Berkeley. http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005_Top100.htm

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''US News'' rankings - Berkeley - UCLA - 2005 - Academic Ranking of World Universities - Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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UCSD is an important research center, with total annual research funding of more than $600 million. The National Science Foundation has ranked UCSD first in the UC system and sixth in the nation in terms of Federal research expenditures. Furthermore, some 200 San Diego companies have been founded by UCSD faculty and alumni, and over 40% of the people employed in the San Diego biotechnology industry work in UCSD spin-offs.

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Sixteen UCSD faculty members have won the Nobel Prize, nine of whom are currently on the faculty. UCSD faculty also include nine MacArthur Fellows and 146 Guggenheim Fellows. UCSD ranks sixth in the nation in terms of National Academy of Science membership.

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MacArthur Fellows - Guggenheim Fellows - National Academy of Science

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For the 2004-2005 academic period, UCSD received 41,330 freshmen applications of which 17,269 students were offered admission (a small number of these offers required students to enter in winter quarter). The admit rate was about 42%. Of those admitted, 22% chose to attend UCSD (First-time freshman profile), forming an entering class of 3874. The group of admitted students this year attained a mean weighted high school grade point average (GPA) of 3.96 and an average composite SAT score of 1243 (Undergraduate profile).

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2004 - 2005 - GPA - SAT

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