University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is the southernmost of the University of California's ten campuses and offers more than 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, enrolling 33,096 undergraduate students and 9,872 graduate students. 

UC San Diego is considered one of the best universities in the world. Several publications have ranked UC San Diego's Departments of Biological Sciences and Computer Science among the top 10 in the world.