The University of California, Santa Barbara (regularly alluded to as UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is an open examination college and one of the 10 grounds of the University of California framework. The fundamental grounds is situated on a 1,022-section of land (414 ha) site close Goleta, California, United States, 8 miles (13 km) from Santa Barbara and 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Los Angeles. Following its roots back to 1891 as an autonomous instructors' school, UCSB joined the University of California framework in 1944 and is the third-most established general-training grounds in the framework.
UCSB is one of America's Public Ivy colleges, which perceives top open examination colleges in the United States. The college is a far reaching doctoral college and is sorted out into five universities and schools offering 87 college degrees and 55 graduate degrees. UCSB was positioned 37th among "National Universities", eighth among U.S. state funded colleges and 28th among Best Global Universities by U.S. News and World Report 's 2016 rankings. The college was additionally positioned 39th worldwide by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 38th around the world (tied for seventeenth worldwide in designing) by the Academic Ranking of World Universities in 2015.
UC Santa Barbara is a "high action" research college with twelve national exploration focuses, including the famous Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Current UCSB personnel incorporates six Nobel Prize laureates, one Fields Medalist, 29 individuals from the National Academy of Sciences, 27 individuals from the National Academy of Engineering, and 31 individuals from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. UCSB was the No. 3 host on the ARPAnet and was chosen to the Association of American Universities in 1995.
The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos contend in the Big West Conference of the NCAA Division I. The Gauchos have won NCAA national titles in men's soccer and men's water polo.