University of California, Santa Barbara is a public institution that was founded in 1909. In the 2026 edition of Best Colleges, University of California, Santa Barbara is ranked No. #40 in National ...

The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering (COE) at UC Santa Barbara will launch the university’s first fully online master’s degree program, an expansion of UCSB’s engineering curriculum designed ...

A new multi-venue exhibition highlighting the past and present of muralism in Santa Barbara County will feature a strong contribution from UC Santa Barbara, with students and alumni from the College ...

UC Santa Barbara announced that first-year and transfer students will now be guaranteed two years of university-owned housing beginning Fall 2026.

UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Dennis Assanis speaks at his inauguration ceremony Wednesday, nine months into the role. This is the first time in decades the ceremony has been held for UCSB, since ...

Dennis Assanis will take the reigns as UC Santa Barbara chancellor on Sept. 1. Credit: Jacob Owens / Spotlight Delaware photo For the first time in more than 30 years, UC Santa Barbara will have a new ...

Advanced tools are giving researchers unprecedented insight into the human immune system. But progress in immunology — including vaccine development — is under threat from funding cuts and other ...

Numerical information only (in the tables above) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Universities are under pressure, from declines in student ...