San Diego Experience
San Diego is a great place to study — and a great place to live. The university, research institutions and innovative business community have become a magnet for attracting smart, talented, successful people to the region.
On campus and off, Rady MBAs are meeting people, creating networks and friendships and participating in the life of a vibrant city.
UCSD Facts
- Over 27,000 students, including 4,000 graduate students
- Ranks seventh in the nation in National Academy of Sciences membership
- Ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the eighth best public university in the nation
- Home to world-renowned San Diego Supercomputer Center, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Institute of the Americas
- Ranked by the National Science Foundation as seventh in the nation in federal R&D expenditures
- Faculty and alumni have spun-off close to 250 local companies, including over a third of the region's biotech companies
- Located on 1,200 acres of coastal woodland along the Pacific Ocean
San Diego Facts
- Population: 1.3 million
- Average summer temperature: 75 degrees
- Average winter temperature: 65 degrees
- 266 sunny days per year
- Population with a graduate degree: 13 percent
- 100 miles from Los Angeles
- Two miles from the beach
- Ranked by Money magazine as one of the best big cities in which to live
- 70 miles of beautiful coastline, with some of its most famous beaches only minutes from the UC San Diego campus
- Balboa Park, the largest urban cultural park in the United States at over 1,200 acres, home to 85 cultural and recreational organizations, including 15 museums
- Professional baseball and football teams
- Home to world-class opera, eclectic museums, Tony Award™-winning theaters
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