University of California, San Diego

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University of California, San Diego
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motto Fiat lux (Eng. "Let there be light")
founding 1960
Sponsorship state
place La Jolla , San Diego , CA
country United StatesUnited States United States
Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla
Students 26,247
Employee 1,471 ( scientific )
Foundation assets $ 525 million
Networks AAU , IAU
Website www.ucsd.edu

The University of California, San Diego ( UCSD ; German University of California, San Diego ) was founded in 1960 and is part of the University of California Association ( UC ). The UCSD is one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Similar to Oxford or Cambridge , the university is divided into individual colleges . The campus is located in La Jolla , an area of San Diego, and is 485 hectares in size. There are currently 26,247 students enrolled here and 1,471 scientists employed. Numerous renowned research institutes such as the Rady School of Management or the Scripps Institution of Oceanography are affiliated with the university .

The university has a budget of $ 1.7 billion (2003). UCSD scientists and alumni have won 20 Nobel Prizes. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities , an association of leading North American universities that has existed since 1900.

history

UCSD is in 13th place worldwide in the current university ranking of Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. Newsweek magazine named UCSD the most exciting place for science in the United States.

Even before the university was founded, San Diego had an important research institute - the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The university was based on this. At first, the UCSD only accepted graduates and was able to develop the undergraduate courses from this small unit. In 1964 there were the first freshmen, in 1974 and 1975 there were the first two Nobel Prizes for Medicines from San Diego, in 1995 the National Research Foundation placed the UCSD in the class of the world-famous American elite universities for the first time in a 700-page report. Today the university has over 26,000 students and is considered particularly excellent in the natural and life sciences. "

Sports

The university's sports teams are the Tritons . The college is a member of the California Collegiate Athletic Association .

Personalities

Current and former professors / research assistants

Nobel Prize Winner
Trademark of the UCSD
View of the university library
The hostage library, named after Theodor Seuss Geisel ( Dr. Seuss )
Star III in front of the Scripps Institute for Oceanography
Jacobs School of Engineering
Further

Graduates

Nobel Prize Winner
Further

ROTC at UCSD

UCSD also offers places to study for students in the Reserve Officer Training Corps of the U.S. Armed Forces .

Web links

Commons : University of California, San Diego  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. Thank You Video Letter from Chancellor Khosla. In: chancellor.ucsd.edu. University of California, San Diego, June 15, 2018, accessed August 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed August 23, 2019 .
  3. http://www.shanghairanking.com/de/ARWU2014.html
  4. http://www.shanghairanking.com/de/ARWU2013.html
  5. http://nobel.universityofcalifornia.edu/list.html
  6. Zeit-Online-Article: US elite universities: Stanford model .

Coordinates: 32 ° 52 '44.7 "  N , 117 ° 14' 6.1"  W.