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UCSD: The Institution
Innovation is our tradition: Nestled along the Pacific Ocean on 1,200 acres of coastal woodland, UCSD is a powerful magnet for those seeking a fresh, next-generation approach to education and research. Since its founding four decades ago, UCSD -- one of the ten campuses in the world-renowned University of California system -- has rapidly achieved the status as one of the top institutions in the nation for higher education and research. UCSD's interdisciplinary ethos and tradition of innovation and risk-taking, underlie its research strength and ability to recruit top scholars and students.
Budget: UCSD's annual revenues are $1.8 billion. (25% of this total is from the federal government for research; 18% is from the State of California for education)
Students: UCSD received over 41,000 applications for fall 2004 admission (the second highest application rate in the University of California system and possibly in the nation). The average high school GPA of admitted freshmen was 4.05, and average SATI score was 1300. Total current campus enrollment is 23,045. UCSD ranks 2nd nationally among major research universities sending students abroad in full-year programs, and 4th in the nation in graduation rates, at 79%. (The top four, in rank order: U of Virginia, Charlottesville; U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; UC Berkeley; UCLA and UCSD tied.)
Economic Impact: UCSD is an engine for regional economic growth. UCSD faculty and alums have spun-off close to 200 local companies, including over a third of the region's biotech companies. In addition, UCSD is San Diego County's largest single employer, with a monthly payroll in excess of $71 million, and over 22,000 employees.
Specialized Resources: UCSD's graduate and professional schools include Scripps Institution of Oceanography; School of Medicine; School of International Relations and Pacific Studies; School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Jacobs School of Engineering (graduate and undergraduate), and Rady School of Management. The campus also is home to the San Diego Supercomputer Center; California Institute for Information Technology and Telecommunications; Center for Research in Computing and the Arts; Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and Institute of the Americas.
Academic Rankings
The National Research Council ranks UCSD 10th in the nation in the quality of its faculty and graduate programs. (The top ten, in rank order, are: UC Berkeley, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, CalTech, Yale, Chicago, Cornell and UCSD.) The NRC ranks oceanography and neurosciences 1st in the nation.
UCSD ranks 6th in the nation in National Academy of Sciences membership. (The top ten, in rank order, are: Harvard, UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Yale, UCSD, CalTech, Princeton, Cornell and Chicago.)
U.S. News and World Report ranks UCSD as 7th best public university in the nation. (In rank order, the top 10 publics are UC Berkeley; U of Virginia; UCLA; U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; College of William & Mary; UCSD; U of Wisconsin, Madison; Georgia Institute of Technology, and U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.)
A U.S. News and World Report survey of graduate programs ranks the Jacobs School of Engineering 13th in the nation and 7th among public engineering schools, and the School of Medicine as 17th among medical schools with a research focus, and 6th among public schools. In Master of Fine Arts programs, UCSD's multimedia/visual communications program ranked 6th in the nation. The most recent US News rankings also place these programs in the nation's top 10: Theatre and Dance (3rd) ; Bioengineering (3rd) ; Political Science (7th) ; Cellular and Developmental Biology (8th) ; Biochemistry (9th) ; Molecular Biology (10th) , and Neurosciences (10th) .
Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine ranks UCSD 16th nationally among the 100 best values in public education for Fall 2003.
Research Impact
UCSD's annual research funding is $627 million . The National Science Foundation ranks UCSD 5th in the nation in federal R&D expenditures. (The top ten are: Johns Hopkins; U of Washington; U of Michigan; Stanford; U of Pennsylvania; UCSD; Columbia; UCLA; MIT and Harvard.)
The Institute for Scientific Information 2002 ranks UCSD 3rd in the world in terms of its 'citation impact' in science and social science. ISI also ranks UCSD 5th in the world for the most cited molecular biology and genetic research papers, and 2nd in the nation for the most influential research in chemistry.
Among all U.S. medical schools, UCSD School of Medicine ranks 1st in the nation in federal research funding per faculty member , and six departments are in the top 10 in NIH funding in their areas. The Health Sciences attract nearly 42% of UCSD's total research funding.
Nature Magazine's Yearbook of Science and Technology 2001 describes UCSD as “one of the ten most powerful research universities in the United States.” Change Magazine ranks UCSD 7th in the nation in knowledge creation, based on faculty research cited in prestigious journals. The Guardian Newspaper 2001 ranking of UK, US, German and Canadian universities places UCSD's citation impact in biological sciences 5th, and medical sciences 8th
Current Faculty Honors
Nobel Prize: George E. Palade, 1974, physiology/medicine; Renato Dulbecco, 1975, physiology/medicine; Harry Markowitz, 1990, economics; Paul Crutzen, 1995, chemistry; Sydney Brenner, 2002, medicine; Clive W.J. Granger and Robert F. Engle, 2003, economics.
Fields Medal: Professor of mathematics Efim Zelmanov.
Balzan Prize: Freeman Gilbert, SIO professor (1990), and Wolfgang Berger, SIO professor (1993).
National Medal of Science: Astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge and oceanographer Walter Munk (1985); physician/scientist George Palade (1986); nuclear physicist Marshall N. Rosenbluth (1998); bioengineer Yuan-Chen Fung (2000), and oceanographer Charles D. Keeling (2002).
National Humanities Medal: Latin American history scholar Ramon Eduardo Ruiz (1998)
Pulitzer Prize: Roger Reynolds (1989) Music.
Kyoto Prize: Oceanographer Walter Munk (1999)
Enrico Fermi Award: Physicist Herbert F. York (2000).
MacArthur Foundation Awards: Patricia Churchland, philosophy; Ramon Gutierrez, history and ethnic studies; Edwin Hutchins, cognitive science; Russell Lande, biology; George Lewis, music; and Michael Schudson, communications.
Prepared by: UCSD University Communications Office, 10/09/04
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