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.

Organization

Undergraduate colleges

The undergraduate college system is one of the most distinctive characteristics at UCSD. Undergraduate housing is organized around a system of residential colleges inspired by those at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, and somewhat similar to the systems at UC Santa Cruz and Princeton University. At UCSD, each college has its own campus and places of residence, requires a different core writing course. Each college also has specific general education requirements and a distinctive academic philosophy.

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System of residential colleges - University of Oxford - University of Cambridge - UC Santa Cruz - Princeton University

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UCSD's six colleges are: Roger Revelle College, founded in 1964 as First College, which boasts rigorous and highly structured requirements in the tradition of a classic liberal arts college; John Muir College, founded in 1967 as Second College, which emphasizes a "spirit of self-sufficiency and individual choice" and offers loosely structured general-education requirements; Thurgood Marshall College, founded in 1970 as Third College, which emphasizes "scholarship, social responsibility and the belief that a liberal arts education must include an understanding of role in society" and whose requirements emphasize a culture of community involvement and multiculturalism; Earl Warren College, founded in 1974 as Fourth College, which seeks to create well-rounded students by requiring students to pursue a major of their choice while also requiring an "area of concentration" in two completely unrelated subjects; Eleanor Roosevelt College, founded in 1988 as Fifth College, which emphasizes an embrace of internationalism and focuses its core education program on a cross-cultural interdisciplinary approach to both Western and non-Western cultures; and Sixth College, founded in 2002 with a focus on "historical and philosophical connections among culture, art and technology."

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Roger Revelle College - 1964 - John Muir College - 1967 - Thurgood Marshall College - 1970 - Earl Warren College - 1974 - Eleanor Roosevelt College - 1988 - Sixth College - 2002

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Undergraduates can major in any discipline offered at UCSD without regard to their undergraduate college. However, the colleges issue undergraduate diplomas and hold individual commencement ceremonies.

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Major divisions

While the colleges constitute the most important division for undergraduate students, courses and programs at UCSD are also divided into the following divisions:

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• Division of Arts and Humanities
• Division of Biological Sciences
• Division of Physical Sciences
• Division of Social Sciences

Graduate and professional schools

• Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
• Graduate Studies and Research
• Jacobs School of Engineering
• Rady School of Management
• School of Medicine
• Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Centers

• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• San Diego Supercomputer Center
• California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Charter School

The Preuss School is a charter school established on the UCSD campus in 1999 to provide an intensive college preparatory curriculum for low-income students from the greater San Diego area.

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Preuss School - Charter school - 1999 - Low-income - San Diego

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