University of California, San Diego

California's University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in the city of San Diego in the state of California. UC San Diego, which was founded in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is the southernmost of the University of California's ten campuses. It offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programmes, enrolling 33,343 undergraduate students and 9,533 graduate students in fall 2015. The institution is located along the shore of the Pacific Ocean on 2,178 acres (881 hectares), with the main campus covering about 1,152 acres (466 ha). According to various college and university rankings, the University of California, San Diego is among the top institutions in the world.

It has 19 organised 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 Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind. It also has eight School of Medicine research units, six research centres at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and two multi-campus initiatives. It also has strong ties to many area research institutions, including the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, and the Scripps Research Institute. It is categorised as "R1: Doctoral Universities - Very High Research Activity" according to the Carnegie Foundation. It spent $1.354 billion on research and development in fiscal year 2019, according to the National Science Foundation, putting it sixth in the country for research and development expenditures.

UC San Diego is regarded to be one among the country's Public Ivies. It is located in San Diego, California. At the time of this writing, 28 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to professors, researchers, and alumni at UC San Diego, the second most of any UC campus. Other awards include three Fields Medals, eight National Medals of Science, eight MacArthur Fellowships, and three Pulitzer Prizes, among others. Additionally, 29 members of the current faculty have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 70 members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 45 members have been elected to the Institute of Medicine, and 110 members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.