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Prospective Undergraduates

Curious to see what life is like as a Jacobs School of Engineering student? Learn more about our six engineering departments and engineering and computer science majors, our Experience Engineering Initiative, and how you can study abroad and still graduate in four years.

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Prospective PhD Students

Our graduate engineering programs consistently rank among the top in the nation. Admissions information for the PhD programs offered at the Jacobs School. 

 

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UC San Diego Professor Honored by Sony and Nature for Bioengineering Research
February 5, 2025

Bioengineering Professor Kiana Aran is one of three inaugural winners of the Sony Women in Technolog...

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Momentum for Fusion Energy in California Continues at UC Workshop
January 27, 2025

Researchers from several campuses at the University of California and national labs, as well as comp...

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Scaling up Neuromorphic Computing for More Efficient and Effective AI Everywhere and Anytime
January 23, 2025

Neuromorphic computing—a field that applies principles of neuroscience to computing systems to...

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New Tool Enables Phylogenomic Analyses of Entire Genomes
January 23, 2025

Researchers led by electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a b...

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$3M Gift to UC San Diego Celebrates Entrepreneurship Efforts at the Jacobs School of Engineering
January 21, 2025

San Diego-based business leader and philanthropist Aiiso Yufeng Li (Jeff) and his wife DongDong...

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The Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San Diego offers excellence at scale in research, education, public service, and technology transfer. The Jacobs School of Engineering ranks the #7 public engineering school in the nation and #11 in the nation overall. A widely-recognized thought leader, the Jacobs School of Engineering ranks #1 in the nation among public engineering schools for citations per publication. With 288 faculty and more than 9,100 students in six departments, the Jacobs School of Engineering is the second largest engineering school in California. Our entrepreneurial faculty lead teams that work across disciplines and industries to tackle the toughest challenges that no lab, department or company can handle alone. At the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, we make bold possible