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The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. The university, one of ten University of California campuses, was founded in 1959 around the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Undergraduate colleges
Student life The campus' undergraduate population is represented by a formal student government, known as the A.S. Council. The 2006-2007 A.S. President is Harry Khanna. Recently, the council made national news over a controversy regarding pornography broadcast over the A.S.-funded television station. The A.S. Council also funds three quarterly festivals during the year: FallFest, WinterFest, and Sun God. Sun God, named after the statue created by artist Niki de Saint Phalle, is the best-known of the three festivals. During the event, there are day long series of concerts, performances, free items, and celebration before the final free concert takes place in the evening. Traditionally, many students also attend the day's events inebriated or with alcohol on their person, an action that rarely occurs during other parts of the year. Each of the undergraduate colleges focuses on enhancing student life through various programs and organizations as well as through residential life programs. The campus' graduate population is represented by a separate formal student government, known as the Graduate Student Association (GSA). The 2006-2007 GSA President is Garo Bournoutian. The Association's membership is comprised of representatives from each of the graduate departments. The number of representatives is proportional to the number of graduate students within that particular department. Additionally, graduate students who serve as teaching or research assistants are represented by the UC-wide union of Academic Student Employees, UAW Local 2865. There are also three campus centers that attempt to cultivate a sense of community among faculty, staff and students--the Cross-Cultural Center, the Women's Center and the LGBT Resource Center. Another major student-run institution is the UCSD Guardian, the campus' twice-weekly student newspaper. Major divisions In addition to academic division by college, courses and programs at UCSD are also divided into the following divisions: Graduate and professional schools
Research centers Charter School The Preuss School is a charter school established on the UCSD campus in 1999 to provide an intensive college preparatory curriculum for low-income students from the greater San Diego area. Admissions For the 2006-2007 academic period, UCSD received 43,587 freshmen applications of which 19,933 students were offered fall admission, making the admission rate about 45.7%. * Admitted students attained a mean weighted high school GPA of 4.04 and average SAT scores of 630, 667, and 639, for Critical Reading, Math and Writing, respectively. * Matriculating students tend to indicate a preference for the University's large environment and largely renowned professors and programs. The top four overlapping schools for applicants are UCLA, UC Berkeley, USC, and Stanford. Graduate admissions are largely centralized through the Office of Graduate Studies and Research. However, the Rady School of Management and the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) handle their own admissions. Athletics
Recognition In the 2006 Newsweek Magazine review, "America's 25 Hottest Colleges," UCSD was selected as the "Hottest for Science," noting the school's location, research grants, tradition, and diverse topics of study as key points *. For 2006, News and World Report'' ranks UCSD as 32nd in the nation overall and seventh among public universities for its undergraduate program. When compared to other public universities in California, UCSD is ranked third behind Berkeley and UCLA. The 2005 Academic Ranking of World Universities released by Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked UCSD 11th in the United States and 13th in the world. In the same year, The Times Higher Education Supplement ranked UCSD as 42nd in the world overall (a significant drop from its 24th ranking in 2004), 14th in the world for biomedicine, and 48th in the world for science *. Also, in 2006, the ''Washington Monthly'', which considers community service in addition to conventional criteria, ranked UCSD sixth. ''Kiplinger's'' ranked UCSD 11th in the nation for “First-Class Education at Bargain Prices." * In 2007, ''US News and World Report'' ranked the graduate School of Medicine as 14th in nation for medical research and 33rd for primary care (a significant drop from its UCSD has total annual research funding of more than $600 million. The National Science Foundation has ranked UCSD first in the UC system and sixth in the nation in terms of Federal research expenditures. Some 200 San Diego companies have been founded by UCSD faculty and alumni, and over 40% of the people employed in the San Diego biotechnology industry work in UCSD spin-offs. ''Science Watch'' ranked UCSD fifth in the world for highest research impact, based on papers published and cited in the field of molecular biology and genetics*. Sixteen UCSD faculty members have won the Nobel Prize, nine of whom are currently on the faculty. UCSD faculty also include nine MacArthur Fellows and 146 Guggenheim Fellows. UCSD ranks sixth in the nation in terms of National Academy of Science membership. In 1995, the National Research Council ranked UCSD faculty the 10th-best in the nation, and ranked numerous graduate programs among the top ten in the United States in terms of quality: neurosciences (1st), oceanography (1st), bioengineering (2nd), physiology (2nd), pharmacology (3rd), theatre and dance (3rd), genetics (6th), geosciences (6th), cell and developmental biology (7th), anthropology (9th), biochemistry and molecular biology (2nd), political science (2nd), aerospace engineering (10th), and mechanical engineering (10th). UCSD also counts among its research centers the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. UCSD's biological science related research, aided by a strong local biotechnology sector, is especially well-respected. Public art
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