University of California, San Diego


Continente:
North America
Country:
United States of America United States of America
Address:
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
Web Site:
www.ucsd.edu
University of California, San Diego


About University of California, San Diego:

The University of California, San Diego is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the United States. The university occupies 2,141 acres (866 ha) near the coast of the Pacific Ocean with the main campus resting on approximately 1,152 acres (466 ha). Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is the seventh oldest of the 10 University of California campuses and offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, enrolling about 28,000 undergraduate and 8,000 graduate students. UC San Diego is organized into six undergraduate residential colleges (Revelle, John Muir, Thurgood Marshall, Earl Warren, Eleanor Roosevelt and Sixth), five academic divisions (Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Jacobs School of Engineering, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences), and five graduate and professional schools (Rady School of Management, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, School of Global Policy and Strategy, School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences). UC San Diego Health, the region’s only academic health system, provides patient care, conducts medical research and educates future health care professionals at the UC San Diego Medical Center, Hillcrest and Jacobs Medical Center. The university operates 19 organized research units (ORUs), including the Center for Energy Research, Qualcomm Institute (a branch of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology), San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, as well as eight School of Medicine research units, six research centers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and two multi-campus initiatives, including the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. UC San Diego is also closely affiliated with several regional research centers, such as the Salk Institute, the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine and the Scripps Research Institute.



World University Rankings

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World University Rankings - - - - - - - - - - 17 17 16 18 17 16 20 22

By Fields

Field 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Agriculture 51 44 41 45 285 56 61 71 83 74 76 85 76 91 99 112 119
Engineering 28 28 36 38 32 34 41 44 49 59 74 82 100 107 110 59 55
Life Sciences 6 6 4 4 4 5 9 11 11 11 8 9 9 7 9 9 11
Medicine 19 16 17 19 16 19 22 23 25 26 27 27 23 24 26 25 27
Natural Sciences 22 24 24 23 28 28 31 32 39 39 43 36 39 42 40 43 40
Social Sciences 28 30 37 33 44 45 44 41 43 44 50 46 47 55 55 63 79

By Subjects

Subject 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Agricultural Sciences 212 285 250 - - - 301-350 301-350 296 301-350 301-350 301-350 301-350 301-350
Biology & Biochemistry - - - - - - - - 8 7 - 8 9 16
Chemistry 43 45 51 63 65 61 70 68 67 68 77 75 43 38
Chemical Engineering - 287 268 248 244 206 232 243 245 223 - - - 92
Civil Engineering 126 129 142 148 153 175 174 195 228 258 211 210 105 93
Clinical Medicine - - - - - - - - 29 27 27 32 31 31
Computer Science 24 6 5 8 21 26 34 46 56 64 98 141 33 27
Economics & Business - - - - - - - - 61 71 - 65 116 133
Electrical Engineering 16 12 16 21 23 31 29 33 47 65 93 112 29 36
Environment / Ecology 46 72 59 67 78 82 73 76 85 71 - 93 124 135
Geosciences 7 8 8 9 10 11 10 14 17 15 - 19 18 23
Immunology - - - - - - - - 18 16 - 16 20 16
Materials Science 62 74 77 76 64 71 81 85 94 99 98 89 63 48
Mathematics 25 25 19 24 48 38 59 66 61 79 85 75 56 62
Mechanical Engineering 9 15 14 32 20 32 38 60 59 96 86 101 40 30
Microbiology - - - - - - - - 12 7 - - - 8
Molecular Biology & Genetics - - - - - - - - 9 8 - 8 10 12
Neuroscience & Behavior - - - - - - - - 12 11 - 11 12 16
Pharmacology & Toxicolog - 13 11 10 11 9 8 9 6 9 17 11 21 26
Physics 32 38 39 45 42 41 51 60 46 52 54 54 71 69
Plant & Animal Science 29 31 49 50 58 60 59 63 61 41 58 62 78 89
Psychiatry / Psychology - - - - - - - - 17 19 - 20 29 23
Social Sciences, General - - - - - - - - 45 46 52 51 58 74
Space Science - - - - - - - - 65 74 - 90 106 80
Energy Science & Engineering - - - - - - - - - - 128 116 80 69
Environmental Science & Engineering - - - - - - - - - - 156 160 111 66
Biomedical Engineering - - - - - - - - - - 20 22 23 37