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- UC Santa Barbara ranks among higher-education
leaders in the United States and Canada as one of only 62 research-intensive
institutions elected to membership in the prestigious
Association of American Universities.
- UCSB’s renowned faculty includes five winners of Nobel Prizes for landmark research in chemistry, physics, and economics, and scores of elected members of national and international academies and societies.
- Recognition of academic quality takes many
forms. One of the most prestigious is support from the National
Science Foundation (NSF). UCSB is home to 12 national
centers and institutes, including eight that are sponsored
by the NSF.
- Demand for admission to UCSB is keen. The campus received a record 55,871 applications for undergraduate admission for fall 2008, which is 7,143 more than last year. Of the 47,025 freshman applicants for the entering class, 14,584 or 31 percent have a high-school Grade Point Average (GPA) of 4.0 or higher. The average GPA of all freshman applicants is 3.71, identical to last year's record level.
- UCSB is the editorial headquarters
for The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, a National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) project that is publishing
definitive scholarly editions of the complete works of naturalist
and literary artist Henry David Thoreau. The Thoreau Edition
has been designated an NEH “We the People” project
because of the importance of Thoreau’s writings in
American history and culture.
- UCSB was selected for one of the
first California Institutes for Science and Innovation.
The California NanoSystems Institute, a research partnership
between UCSB and UCLA, is producing scientific advances in
fields critical to the future of California’s economy.
- The UCSB Libraries have opened up the
world of historic sound recordings by mounting thousands
of digitized cylinder recordings on an immensely popular new
Web site: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu
- UCSB’s Center for Film, Television,
and New Media was recently named for Emmy Award-winning
television producers Marcy Carsey and Dick Wolf in
recognition of their generous support for the construction
of a new facility for the innovative center.
- UCSB has been named one of the “hottest” colleges
in the nation twice in the past five years by the
popular Newsweek guide to top colleges.
- U.S. News and World Report’s guide, “America’s
Best Colleges,” the most widely read college guide in the
country, ranks UCSB number 13 among all public universities.
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