Feb 6, 2010 · The University California San Diego is one of the world's leading public research universities, located in beautiful La Jolla, California

The University of California, San Diego [a] (UC San Diego, or colloquially UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla , UC San Diego is the southernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California .

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As a member of the ten-campus family of the University of California, UC San Diego is widely recognized for its faculty and for its wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs that lead to the bachelor’s, master’s, MBA, EdD, MD, PhD, and PharmD degrees.

UC San Diego is transforming California and a diverse global society by educating, by generating and disseminating knowledge and creative works, and by engaging in public service.

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Our campus at UC San Diego has plenty of obvious charms. But you’ll also find one of the world’s leading research universities—second in the world, to be exact—and over 130 undergraduate courses across five disciplines.

Learn about Admissions at UC San Diego: We don’t just think outside the box, we break it apart and build a better one.

Listing of Graduate Programs at UC San Diego. Apply Now. We offer a wide variety of academic and professional graduate degree programs and we welcome talented prospective students from across the nation and around the world to apply for admission.

As one of the world's leading public research universities, UC San Diego attracts bold thinkers and creative achievers — the disassemblers of the everyday who come here to "Break Things Better."