UC San Diego Home Page. UC San Diego: Prospective Students. Undergraduate Students Are you a high-achieving student looking for a world-class education?
Start here! Whether you're ready to fill out the application or planning ahead, we've got information you need. Stats. UCSD Description: One of the "Public Ivies," UCSD consistently ranks in top ten lists of best public universities. The school is particularly strong in the sciences, social sciences and engineering. With its coastal location in La Jolla, California, and with the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UCSD gets top marks for oceanography and the biological sciences. The school has a system of six undergraduate residential colleges modeled after Oxford and Cambridge, and each college has its own curricular focus.