Six Nobel Prize winning professors
Consistently ranked very high in the “Best College” categories of major research institutions
Campus is right at the beach
Close proximity to downtown Santa Barbara with shopping, entertainment, and sports activities
In 1944 the University joined the University of California System.
The university is known both for its world-class research achievements as well as for their high-quality teaching instructions. The UCSB has six Nobel laureate professors in the fields of chemistry, physics and business administration and ranked every year very high in the „Best College“ category of the various research institutions. Santa Barbara is also home to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
University of California, Santa Barbara. The UCSB is one of the ten universities that is connected to the high-quality University of California system. The UCSB has about 20,000 students and offers almost 100 different departments that are recognized after graduating with a bachelor, masters, and doctorate degrees.
The excellent reputation of UCSB in the research field, as well as the numerous training opportunities have provided the University’s membership in the exclusive association „Association of American Universities (AAU).“ In a new study, the UCSB was ranked as one of the two best public universities in the United States. Students from all over the world come to Santa Barbara to study.
The UCSB campus is located near the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded on three sides by water, such as white sand beaches surrounded. The university itself has its own lagoon. The beautiful campus is adorned throughout the year by a sea of colors of flowering plants. Biking trails can be found, which are eagerly used by bicyclists, as well as skateboarders everywhere. Since many students live on campus or in the adjacent municipality of Isla Vista, there is a very active campus life at UCSB.
In addition to many cozy places for studying, there is a bookstore, restaurants and cafes, museum, concert hall and a hall which can lectures, movie nights, readings and other cultural events by celebrities regularly in the. There has even been a movie premiere on campus before not too long, and the occasional „open air“ Festivals are offered.
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