University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States. Established in 1960, it is the southernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California. It occupies 2,178 acres near the Pacific coast, consists of 12 schools and 8 undergraduate residential colleges, and is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity. The university offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, enrolling 35,442 undergraduate and 10,736 graduate students.