unitid 110680 · La Jolla, CA · public 4-year · city (large)
University of California-San Diego
Public research university in San Diego, California
- founded
- 1960
- enrollment 2023
- 44,050
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- ucsd.edu
The University of California, San Diego is a public land-grant research university in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States. Established in 1960, it is the southernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California. It occupies 2,178 acres (881 ha) near the Pacific coast. wikipedia rev 1363613172 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
27%
3rd pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
34,948
97th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
34%
undergrads on Pell grants
57th pctl among public 4-years
completion
86%
finish within 150% time
97th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$38,701
98th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$12,470
after aid, aided students
48th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$84,943
after entry, Title IV students
98th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$15,500
32nd pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $7,525 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k36%
- 30-48k19%
- 48-75knot reported
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $35,914
- First-generation students
- 40%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $16,758
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 5.5× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences. | 749 | — | — |
| Cognitive Science. | 722 | $85,159 | $17,481 |
| Computer Science. | 518 | $160,463 | $16,550 |
| International/Globalization Studies. | 511 | $73,765 | $16,500 |
| Computer Science. | 499 | $301,159 | — |
| Political Science and Government. | 383 | $69,947 | $16,030 |
| Economics. | 364 | $84,118 | $15,000 |
| Psychology, General. | 350 | $56,911 | $16,124 |
| Public Health. | 338 | $67,103 | $15,280 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 323 | — | — |
| Biology, General. | 316 | $69,381 | $17,667 |
| Mathematics and Computer Science. | 299 | — | $18,887 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 4,680 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,188) · university teacher (402) · computer scientist (231) · economist (96) · mathematician (88) · writer (74) · physicist (68) · basketball player (62)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Susumu Tonegawa Medicine 1987
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Chemistry 2009
- Bruce Beutler Medicine 2011
- Fred Ramsdell Medicine 2025
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Angela Davis
86 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Khaled Hosseini
86 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
75 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Benicio del Toro
74 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Susumu Tonegawa
59 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bruce Beutler
57 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
James Avery
55 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Fred Ramsdell
46 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Kim Stanley Robinson
45 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Craig Venter
44 wikis · CC BY 2.5
David Brin
41 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kathy Acker
39 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vernor Vinge
38 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gregory Benford
37 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mike Judge
37 wikis · CC BY 4.0
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363613172), CC BY-SA 4.0.