University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, California. UCSB's campus has not been annexed by the city of Santa Barbara and is not technically part of the city, though it is closer in proximity to Goleta. The City of Santa Barbara runs a strip of "city" through the ocean and around UCSB. Although UCSB has a Santa Barbara mailing address, as do other unincorporated areas around the city, it is not in Santa Barbara city. The campus is divided into three parts: Main campus, Storke campus, and West campus. The campuses surround the community of Isla Vista. It is one of ten University of California campuses.

On Campus

Academic buildings

Broida Hall

Broida Hall is a building entirely for the Department of Physics. The building houses the offices for the Physics professors, classrooms, as well as laboratories.

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Cheadle Hall

The Office of the Chancellor, Graduate Division, the Office of Research, and the main office of the College of Letters and Science are in this building.

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CCS Trailer

The CCS Trailer is the headquarters of the College of Creative Studies (CCS), which is a small, special college in UCSB. The trailer is officially known as trailer #494. It houses the offices of the Dean of CCS; a lounge, a computer room and classrooms for CCS students.

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Supposedly, the trailer was only a temporary headquaters of the College of Creative Studies, before the college has a permanent building for itself. But ironically, this "temporary" headquarters has been the headquarters of the college for more than 30 years. The college also repainted the exterior of the trailer massively in 2004.

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Kerr Hall

Home to the Learning Labs, Television Services, Media Equipment, and Instructional Resources.

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South Hall

South Hall is located next to the picturesque Storke Tower. It houses the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Statistics, the Department of Linguistics, the Department of English, the Department of Black Studies, and the Department of Chicano and Chicana Studies. It also houses the campus office of the University of California Education Abroad Program. The hall is six stories high.

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Other

• Storke Tower is the tallest building for miles. It's home to a five octave, 61 bell carillon.
• The Daily Nexus is the campus newspaper.
• KCSB 91.9 broadcasts from beneath Storke Tower.
• The Lagoon is a large body of water near the coast line, between San Rafael and San Miguel Residence Halls. It is fed by a combination of run-off and ocean water used by the Marine Science Building's aquatic life tanks, thus, it is a combination of fresh and salt water.