Public land-grant research university in San Diego, CA that is ranked among the best universities in the world by major college and university rankings.

UC San Diego is considered one of the country's Public Ivies. UC San Diego faculty, researchers and alumni have won dozens of Nobel Prizes, as well as three Fields Medals, Pulitzer Prizes, etc.

UCSD occupies 2,178 acres (881 ha) near the coast of the Pacific Ocean, with the main campus resting on approximately 1,152 acres (466 ha) and offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree program.

UC San Diego consists of four academic divisions (Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences), and seven graduate and professional schools (Jacobs School of Engineering, Rady School of Management, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, School of Global Policy and Strategy, School of Medicine, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the newly established Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science).

The university has seven undergraduate residential colleges (Revelle, John Muir, Thurgood Marshall, Earl Warren, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sixth, and Seventh). UC San Diego received over 140,000 applications for Fall 2021, making it the second most applied-to university in the United States