41.UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA

41.UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA           (.... 29th in USA)                                                                           

The University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a young school, barely a century old. But in the last 60 years, it has surged onto the world scene and become internationally renowned.

The university’s 21,500 students and 1,100 faculty enjoy one of the most aesthetically stunning campuses in the world.

 Newsweek has written of UCSB: “If there’s a more beautiful campus than this one at the edge of the Pacific, we haven’t seen it.”

The current faculty include five Nobel Prize Laureates since 1998, as well as members of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, as well as recipients of the Fields Medal and the Millennium Technology Prize. 

These first-class intellects pursue research at the school’s 12 national research centers.

This rapid rise to prominence was rewarded in 1995, when UCSB joined the 62-school Association of American Universities, an honor which less than two percent of North American Universities enjoy.