Location
Location?
The University of California, San Diego is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the United States. The university occupies 2,141 acres near the coast of the Pacific Ocean with the main campus resting on approximately 1,152 acres.
Colors
Colors?
Mascot
Mascot?
Given UC San Diego’s close proximity to the Pacific Ocean and its
connections with the Scripps Institute of Oceanography,
the nickname of the Tritons became an appropriate one in 1964.
The Triton is described as the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite who
is a demigod of the sea with lower part of the body like that of a fish.
It is known as a mighty and fierce sea warrior.
School Size
Size?
University of California--San Diego has a total undergraduate enrollment of 28,127,
with a gender distribution of 52 percent male students and 48 percent female students.
At this school, 39 percent of the students live in college-owned,
-operated or -affiliated housing and 61 percent of students live off campus.
Established
Established?
On November 18, 1960
the University of California, San Diego is officially established.
The campus is realized through state appropriations, a donation from General Dynamics
and a gift from the city of 63 acres of pueblo land northeast of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Founded in 1960, UC San Diego enrolled its first undergraduates in 1964.
Nevertheless, the campus can trace its origins as far back as the late 1800s.
At that time, zoologists at the UC Berkeley campus, seeking a suitable location
for a marine field station, found the La Jolla area of San Diego a very desirable site
. The facility they established became a part of the University of California in 1912
and was eventually named the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. In the late 1950s,
when the regents of the University of California decided to situate a general campus in
the region, Scripps Oceanography formed the nucleus of the new campus.
Motto
MOTTO
“Fiat Lux, Let there be Light”
Someone must secure and light the candle of truth and knowledge for the public.
Let us together work to shine that light on important problems.
“Together, indeed, we achieve the extraordinary.”