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Website. ucsd.edu. The University of California, San Diego[a] (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is the southernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California.
The UC San Diego School of Medicine is ranked 18th in the 2017 edition of U.S. News & World Report for research and ranked 12th in primary care. [15] The "Drug and Alcohol Abuse" research program is ranked 10th overall. The Academic Ranking of World Universities ranks UC San Diego 20th in the world for clinical medicine and pharmacy. [16]
The UC San Diego Library consists of Geisel Library and the Sally T. WongAvery Library, with off-campus locations at Scripps Archives and Library Annex, the Trade Street Storage Annex, and the UC Southern Regional Library Facility. The head of the library system is designated the Audrey Geisel University Librarian, currently Erik T. Mitchell. [3]
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2, previously Cal(IT) 2), also referred to as the Qualcomm Institute (QI) at its San Diego branch, is a collaborative academic research institution of the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego), the University of California, Irvine (UCI), [5] and University of California, Riverside. [4]
The UC San Diego Medical Center, Hillcrest (also referred to as the Hillcrest Medical Center or simply UC San Diego Medical Center) is one of three medical centers of UC San Diego Health and is a teaching hospital for the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. The 390-bed hospital offers a range of primary care and specialized ...
Eighth College is the eighth college at the University of California, San Diego with the theme "Engagement & Community," primarily focusing on structural racism, climate disruption, ecological degradation, globalization of chronic infectious diseases, declining resilience in human settlements and working lands to adapt to shocks, widening economic, health, and well-being disparities.
Revelle College is the oldest residential college at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California. Founded in 1964, it is named after oceanographer and UC San Diego founder Roger Revelle. UC San Diego—along with Revelle College—was founded at the height of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The Eleanor Roosevelt College (Roosevelt or ERC) is one of seven undergraduate colleges at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego or UCSD). While ERC has students of all majors, the college emphasizes international understanding in its co-curricular programming and general education requirements, requiring students to complete the Making of the Modern World history and writing ...