University of California, San Diego (abbreviated as UCSD or UC San Diego) is usually translated as University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, a research university, Pacific Rim University Alliance, International Forum of Public Universities and association of american universities.
Selected into the British government's "high potential talent visa program". By 2020, there will be 27 Nobel Prize winners, 3 Fields Medal winners, 8 National Science Medal winners, 8 MacArthur Prize winners and 2 Pulitzer Prize winners among UCSD alumni, and there are 254 academicians of the Fourth Academy of Sciences in the existing teaching staff.
The school has seven undergraduate general education colleges, five academic research colleges and five professional research colleges, and manages the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Qualcomm Institute, San Diego Supercomputing Center and other 19 research centers. The University of California, San Diego was formally established in 1960, and its predecessor was Scripps Institute of Oceanography, which was established in 1903.
Now it has developed into an academic center in biology, marine science, earth science, computer science, psychology, political science, economics and many other fields. According to the data of the National Science Foundation of the United States, the school's annual research funding is as high as 654.38+0.9 billion US dollars, ranking fifth in the United States and first in the University of California system.
Geographical location:
San Diego is located on the Pacific coast of the southwestern United States. It is the sixth largest city in the United States and the second largest city in California. It is famous for its most comfortable climate, numerous theme amusement parks and cultural and historical buildings in the United States. It is rated as one of the best 10 cities in the United States and one of the safest cities in the United States.
Sea World in San Diego is the largest marine theme park in the world, and balboa Park in San Diego is the largest urban cultural park in the United States. San Diego International Comic-Con is the largest in the western hemisphere and the second largest in the world. It is also the largest military port of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, where the retired "Midway Island" aircraft carrier is parked.