	University of California-Santa Barbara 2016 University Academic Rankings
The University of California, Santa Barbara (commonly referred to as UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public research university and one of the 10 campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a 1,022-acre (414 ha) site near Goleta, California, United States, 8 miles (13 km) from Santa Barbara and 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Los Angeles. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an independent teachers' college, UCSB joined the University of California system in 1944 and is the third-oldest general-education campus in the system. UCSB is one of America's Public Ivy universities, which recognizes top public research universities in the United States. The university is a comprehensive doctoral university and is organized into five colleges and schools offering 87 undergraduate degrees and 55 graduate degrees. UCSB was ranked 37th among "National Universities", 8th among U.S. public universities and 24th among Best Global Universities by U.S. News & World Report 's 2016 rankings. The university was also ranked 39th worldwide by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 38th worldwide (tied for 17th worldwide in engineering) by the Academic Ranking of World Universities in 2015. UC Santa Barbara is a "very high activity" research university with twelve national research centers, including the renowned Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Current UCSB faculty includes six Nobel Prize laureates, one Fields Medalist, 29 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 27 members of the National Academy of Engineering, and 31 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. UCSB was the No. 3 host on the ARPAnet and was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1995. The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos compete in the Big West Conference of the NCAA Division I. The Gauchos have won NCAA national championships in men's soccer and men's water polo. History UCSB traces its origins back to the Anna Blake School which was founded in 1891 and offered training in home economics and industrial arts. The Anna Blake School was taken over by the state in 1909 and became the Santa Barbara State Normal School, which then became the Santa Barbara State College in 1921. In 1944 intense lobbying by an interest group in the City of Santa Barbara led by Thomas Storke and Pearl Chase persuaded the State Legislature, Governor Earl Warren, and the Regents of the University of California to move the State College over to the more research-oriented University of California system. The State College system sued to stop the takeover, but the Governor did not support the suit. A state initiative was passed, however, to stop subsequent conversions of State Colleges to University of California campuses. From 1944 to 1958 the school was known as Santa Barbara College of the University of California, before taking on its current name. When the vacated Marine Corps training station in Goleta was purchased for the rapidly growing college, Santa Barbara City College moved into the vacated State College buildings. Originally, the Regents envisioned a small, several thousand-student liberal arts college, a so-called "Williams College of the West", at Santa Barbara. Chronologically, UCSB is the third general-education campus of the University of California, after Berkeley and UCLA (the only other state campus to have been acquired by the UC system). The original campus the Regents acquired in Santa Barbara was located on only 100 acres (40 ha) of largely unusable land on a seaside mesa. The availability of a 400-acre (160 ha) portion of the land used as Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara until 1946 on another seaside mesa in Goleta, which the Regents could acquire for free from the federal government, led to that site becoming the Santa Barbara campus in 1949. Original ... [more on wikipedia]

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University of California Details

University of California Details
detail	value
state	California
conference	Big West Conference
public	Public
scores	1820/1213/27
level	Good
rank	[63
overall ROI rank	[122
size	medium-large
undergrads	20238
grads	2813
price	57631
drop	19
stem	20
research	230
scores valid	True

Common Questions...

What are the academic rankings for University of California-Santa Barbara?

1. number 63 for Academics.

2. number 122 for ROI (Return on Investment).

What universities are similar to University of California-Santa Barbara?

1. University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

2. University of Iowa

3. Mississippi State University

4. Miami University-Oxford

5. Baylor University

6. University of Delaware

7. University of Connecticut

National Academic Rankings

(summary of all ranking placements)

University of California National Academic Rankings

University of California National Academic Rankings
category	rank	scores	difficulty	smartest	brainpower	faculty	research	salary ROI	overall ROI
Top250	63	145	172	66	66	9	67	184	122
All	57	85	92	65	64	9	49	86	75
All Nonivy	51	82	90	58	57	7	43	84	72
Public	22	33	55	30	28	4	38	76	54
Big West Conference	1	2	3	2	2	1	4	2	1
West Coast Region	8	21	25	9	11	5	10	21	12
State of California	9	17	18	8	10	5	9	14	11
Top Ten Top250	63	145	172	66	66	9	67	184	122
Top Ten Big West Conference	1	2	3	2	2	1	4	2	1

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match	university	state	conference	public	level	rank	overall ROI
92.85	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	Pennsylvania	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	Good	50	75
92.70	University of Iowa	Iowa	Big Ten Conference	Public	Good	68	79
92.11	Mississippi State University	Mississippi	Southeastern Conference	Public	AboveAverage	197	130
91.88	Miami University-Oxford	Ohio	Mid American Conference	Public	Good	118	67
91.23	Baylor University	Texas	Big Twelve Conference	Private	Good	134	128
86.24	University of Delaware	Delaware	Colonial Athletic Association	Public	AboveAverage	107	138
86.06	University of Connecticut	Connecticut	Big East Conference	Public	Good	87	139
86.04	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	Excellent	37	64
85.56	Utah State University	Utah	Mountain West Conference	Public	AboveAverage	165	120
85.08	University of Colorado Boulder	Colorado	Pacific 12 Conference	Public	AboveAverage	79	59
85.02	University of Georgia	Georgia	Southeastern Conference	Public	Good	82	65
84.55	University of California-Los Angeles	California	Pacific 12 Conference	Public	Excellent	29	84
83.02	Ohio State University	Ohio	Big Ten Conference	Public	Good	40	43
81.89	University of San Diego	California	Pioneer Football League / West...	Private	Good	203	195
80.93	Yeshiva University	New York	Skyline Conference	Private	Good	141	208
79.91	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Nebraska	Big Ten Conference	Public	AboveAverage	119	98
79.75	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus	Oklahoma	Big Twelve Conference	Public	AboveAverage	137	54
79.71	University of Kansas	Kansas	Big Twelve Conference	Public	AboveAverage	172	130
79.56	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	Tennessee	Southeastern Conference	Public	AboveAverage	116	188
79.51	University of Arkansas	Arkansas	Southeastern Conference	Public	AboveAverage	171	119
79.40	University of Kentucky	Kentucky	Southeastern Conference	Public	AboveAverage	159	130
79.40	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	Massachusetts	Mid - American Conference / At...	Public	AboveAverage	88	144
79.37	George Mason University	Virginia	Atlantic 10 Conference	Public	AboveAverage	156	143
79.27	Boston University	Massachusetts	Patriot League	Private	Excellent	45	116
79.04	Virginia Commonwealth University	Virginia	Atlantic 10 Conference	Public	AboveAverage	178	207
79.02	Clemson University	South Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	AboveAverage	98	51
78.89	CUNY Hunter College	New York	City University of New York At...	Public	AboveAverage	193	228
78.89	University of Cincinnati	Ohio	American Athletic Conference	Public	AboveAverage	202	106
78.76	University of Virginia	Virginia	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	Excellent	32	27
78.76	University of South Carolina-Columbia	South Carolina	Southeastern Conference	Public	AboveAverage	93	130
78.65	DePaul University	Illinois	Big East Conference	Private	AboveAverage	193	150
78.61	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College	Louisiana	Southeastern Conference	Public	AboveAverage	148	88
78.35	Syracuse University	New York	Atlantic Coast Conference	Private	AboveAverage	172	216
78.21	University of Missouri-Columbia	Missouri	Southeastern Conference	Public	AboveAverage	121	98
78.10	Temple University	Pennsylvania	American Athletic Conference	Public	AboveAverage	168	199
78.00	Iowa State University	Iowa	Big Twelve Conference	Public	AboveAverage	129	71
78.00	Western Washington University	Washington	Great Northwest Athletic Conference	Public	AboveAverage	297	338
77.87	University of North Texas	Texas	Conference USA	Public	AboveAverage	192	165
77.75	SUNY at Binghamton	New York	America East	Public	Excellent	65	125
77.41	University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras	Puerto Rico	Independent Southeast Region	Public	AboveAverage	176	232
77.29	Rowan University	New Jersey	New Jersey Athletic Conference	Public	AboveAverage	306	392
76.95	University of Vermont	Vermont	America East	Public	AboveAverage	136	191
76.14	University of Dayton	Ohio	Pioneer Football League / Atla...	Private	AboveAverage	278	138
76.10	Marquette University	Wisconsin	Big East Conference	Private	AboveAverage	197	121
75.91	Emory University	Georgia	University Athletic Association	Private	Excellent	36	29
75.68	Villanova University	Pennsylvania	Colonial Athletic Association ...	Private	Excellent	99	68
75.59	University of San Francisco	California	West Coast Conference	Private	AboveAverage	226	241
75.55	The College of New Jersey	New Jersey	New Jersey Athletic Conference	Public	Good	164	193
75.41	College of William and Mary	Virginia	Colonial Athletic Association	Public	Excellent	54	60
75.36	University of St Thomas	Minnesota	Minnesota Intercollegiate Ath Conf	Private	AboveAverage	238	156

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match	university	state	conference	public	level	rank	overall ROI
98.99	University of Iowa	Iowa	Big Ten Conference	Public	Good	68	79
98.68	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	Washington	Pacific 12 Conference	Public	Good	55	66
96.19	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	AboveAverage	58	31
95.15	Stony Brook University	New York	Colonial Athletic Association ...	Public	Good	62	109
93.76	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	New Jersey	Big Ten Conference	Public	AboveAverage	56	115
93.67	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	Pennsylvania	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	Good	50	75
92.61	University of California-Davis	California	Big Sky Conference / Big West ...	Public	AboveAverage	58	142
92.61	Pennsylvania State University	Pennsylvania	Big Ten Conference	Public	AboveAverage	53	84
92.03	Purdue University	Indiana	Big Ten Conference	Public	AboveAverage	57	20
90.96	Boston University	Massachusetts	Patriot League	Private	Excellent	45	116
90.84	George Washington University	Washington DC	Atlantic 10 Conference	Private	Excellent	51	135
90.50	Tulane University of Louisiana	Louisiana	American Athletic Conference	Private	Excellent	61	106
90.48	SUNY at Binghamton	New York	America East	Public	Excellent	65	125
90.33	Texas A & M University-College Station	Texas	Southeastern Conference	Public	AboveAverage	71	22
89.24	Wake Forest University	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Private	Excellent	66	50
85.91	College of William and Mary	Virginia	Colonial Athletic Association	Public	Excellent	54	60
84.78	New England Small College Ath Conf (Average)	-	New England Small College Ath Conf	-Conf-	Elite	-	144
83.84	Bowdoin College	Maine	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	64	162
81.18	Franklin W Olin College of Engineering	Massachusetts	No Conference Affiliation	Private	Elite	48	53
80.97	Swarthmore College	Pennsylvania	Centennial Conference	Private	Elite	67	48
79.51	Harvey Mudd College	California	Southern California Intercoll ...	Private	Elite	49	19

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