A
few UCSD facts:
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UCSD
is ranked the 8th best public university in the
US. |
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The
National Research Council ranks UCSD 10th in the
nation in the quality of its faculty and graduate
programs. (The top ten, in order, are: UC Berkeley,
MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, CalTech, Yale,
Chicago, Cornell and UCSD.) |
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UCSD
is ranked 13th in the world by a study by Shanghai
Jioatong University. This is ahead of the University
of Tokyo, University of Pennsylvania, and UCLA,
among others. |
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20,000
undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students. |
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Most
popular undergraduate majors: biology, computer
science, economics, psychology, political science,
electrical engineering, communications, applied
mechanics and engineering, bioengineering, chemistry
and biochemistry. |
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Eight
Nobel Prize winners on the faculty; 10 past and
present faculty are Nobel Laureates. |
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Only
45 years old, but already one of the top research
universities in the United States: seventh in the
U.S. in federal research dollars |
For helpful links to parts of the UCSD campus and
the surrounding area, click
here.
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Geisel Library and Library walk. |
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