University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located in Santa Barbara County, California. UCSB's campus was annexed by the city of Santa Barbara and thus is technically part of the city, though it is closer in proximity to Goleta. The campus was divided into three parts : main campus, storke campus and west campus. The campuses surround the community of Isla Vista. It is one of ten University of California campuses.

History

UCSB was founded in 1909 as a small school for training public school teachers, and four years later moved to a thirteen-acre campus in the Riviera area above town. By 1935, the school was called Santa Barbara State College ("SB State"). In 1944, "SB State" joined the University of California system, and upgraded its curriculum to provide Master's degrees. Ten years later, UCSBC (as it was then called) moved to a former World War II Marine air base and began building a new campus at its present site. In 1958, UCSBC was renamed UCSB, and stedily progressed to a nationally ranked research university that currenly offers almost 100 Bachelor's, 50 Master's and over 30 Ph.D. programmes.

• Adapted from an original article by Robert Kelly, Professor of History, 1962-1993.

Academics

UCSB was originally a small independent teacher's college, but it was designated a University of California campus after World War II during the UC's postwar expansion and was relocated and rebuilt accordingly. UCSB now has three undergraduate colleges: the College of Letters & Science, the College of Engineering, and the College of Creative Studies. The College of Creative Studies offers students an alternative approach to education by allowing them to pursue advanced, independent work in the arts, mathematics, and sciences. The campus also has two professional schools, the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education.

UCSB also hosts eight National Research Centers, including the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Materials Research Laboratory. (Five of these Centers are supported by the National Science Foundation). Its faculty includes five Nobel laureates, 14 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 18 members of the National Academy of Engineering, and 12 members of the Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Reputation

In the past, UCSB had a well-deserved reputation as a "party school," though the administration has made major efforts in recent years to combat that stereotype. See the article on Isla Vista for more information.

Yet, in recent years, a number of professors in UCSB have won Nobel Prizes in different subject areas. Here is a gallery for the Nobel Laureate in UCSB: http://www.ucsb.edu/nobel/index.shtml

External link

• UCSB official website (http://www.ucsb.edu/)

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