UCSD Facts* and Faculty Awards

On-campus student enrollment (Fall 2009)
Undergraduate 23,143
Revelle 3,757
John Muir 4,171
Thurgood Marshall 3,962
Earl Warren  4,162
Eleanor Roosevelt 3,687
Sixth 3,404
Graduate 4,231
School of Medicine and School of Pharmacy
and Pharmaceutical Sciences
1,736
Total 29,110
Grade-point averages
Freshman 2.90
Sophomore 3.00
Junior 3.02
Senior 3.07
Number of undergraduates
in most populous departments
Biology 5,768
Economics 2,486
Psychology 1,474
Political Science 1,261
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) 1,161
Chemistry 1,039
Communication 897
International Studies 876
Bioengineering 827
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) 789
Miscellaneous
UCSD Extension enrollment 23,248
Summer Session enrollment 20,073
On campus teaching faculty members 2,200
Bound books in library collection 3,118,440

Based upon the previous year’s experience, 94 percent of all new freshmen enrolled at UCSD in the fall quarter are also enrolled in the subsequent fall quarter. Eighty-five percent of all students who begin their undergraduate studies as freshmen at UCSD complete their degree requirements here within six years. Questions or requests for more detailed information should be directed to the Office of Student Research and Information/Student Affairs.

Members of Honorary Societies/
Faculty Prizes and Awards
A.B. Wood Medal Prize 2
Acoustical Society of America 1
Albert Lasker Award for Basic
Medical Research
1
American Academy of Arts and Sciences  109
American Association for the Advancement of Science  101
American Association of Physicians 1
American Chemical Society  12
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 2
American Geophysical Union 36
American Philosophical Association 1
American Philosophical Society  20
American Physical Society  30
American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1
Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship  3
Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award 1
Association for the Advancement
of Artificial Intelligence Fellow
1
Balzan Prize  2
California Scientist of the Year 3
Council on Foreign Relations 1
Crafoord Prize 1
Dreyfus New Faculty Award 1
Econometric Society Fellow  5
Emmy Award 1
Fields Medal 2
Ford Foundation Fellowship  15
Fulbright Scholarship  56
Goldschmidt Medal  2
Guggenheim Fellowship 132
Harvey Prize 1
Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Award 2
Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Professors Award 1
Humboldt Fellowship  3
IEEE Fellow  38
IEEE/NPSS Early Achievement Award 1
Institute of Medicine  37
Jacob Javits Neoroscience Investigator Award 1
James B. Macelwane Medal 3
John Adam Fleming Medal 2
Keck Foundation: Distinguished
Young Scholars Program
 3
Klingenstein Fellowship 2
Kyoto Prize 1
Landis Award  1
LSE Seed Fund 1
MacArthur Fellowship 6
Maurice Ewing Medal 5
McDonnell-Pew Fellow 1
McKnight Scholar Award 1
MERIT Award (NIMH) 1
National Academies Education Fellow
in the Life Sciences
1
National Academy of Education  4
National Academy of Engineering 22
National Academy of Sciences  89
National Book Critic Circle Award  2
National Endowment for Humanities  7
National Endowment for the Arts  10
National Humanities Medal 1
National Kidney Foundation Young Investigator Award 1
National Medal of Science 5
National Science Foundation Creativity Award 1
New Innovator Award, National Institutes of Health 2
NIH Clinical Investigator Award 1
Nobel Peace Prize 4
Nobel Prize  6
NSF Early Career Development Program  40
Overton Prize 1
Packard Fellowship 9
Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineering (PECASE)
11
Pulitzer Prize  2
Residency at the Getty Center for Arts and Humanities 2
Residency at the National Humanities Center 3
Rockefeller Fellowship 11
Royal Society 4
Shaw Prize 1
Searle Scholar  21
Sloan Research Fellowship  54
Spencer Foundation Fellowship 2
Theodore Bullock Neuroscience Award 2
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism 1
Tyler Prize 2
Vannevar Bush Award 1
Walter H. Bucher Medal 1
William Bowie Medal 2
Wolf Prize 1
World Computer Smithsonian Award 1  
Young Investigator Award, Biomedical
Engineering Society
1
Young Investigator Award, Child Neurology Society 1
Young Investigator Award, International
Society for Matrix Biology
1

 

*As of spring 2010