School Factsheet

The following information is a statistical snapshot of data representing the current makeup of the School of Biological Sciences at UC San Diego.

Facts of Note

• UC San Diego Campus Profile
• UC San Diego Biology Areas Ranked in U.S. News and World Report's Top 10 List (11/21/22)
• UC San Diego's Biological Sciences Programs Ranked Number One in the Nation (9/28/10) - National Research Council (NRC) Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs, conducted every ten years.
• UC San Diego Biological Sciences Ranked 10th in QS World Rankings by British Council (2021)
• UC San Diego Ranked 6th Global Academic Institution in Biomedical Sciences by Nature Index (2019)

Faculty

• 116 Faculty / 13 Teaching Professors / 48 Adjunct Faculty / One Professor of Practice in four Academic Departments:
  
  • Cell & Developmental Biology Faculty
  • Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution Faculty
  • Molecular Biology Faculty
  • Neurobiology Faculty
• 23 Members, National Academy of Sciences
• 17 Members, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
• 26 Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 16 Divisional Endowed Chairs and Professorships
• 4 HHMI Investigators/Professors/Faculty Scholars

Students & Research Scholars

• 5,254 Undergraduate Students in 7 Biology Majors:
  
  • Bioinformatics
  • Ecology Behavior & Evolution
  • General Biology
  • Human Biology
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular and Cell Biology
  • Neurobiology
• 28,644 Total enrollments in biology classes (2019-20)
• 115 Postdoctoral Scholars
• 204 Ph.D. Graduate Students
• 165 Masters Students

• 35,000+ living Biology Alumni

  • Alumni Nobel Laureates: Susumu Tonegawa (1987), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009), and Bruce Beutler (2011)

Facilities & Resources

• 105 Research Laboratories
• 2 Research Centers
  • California Center for Algae Biotechnology (Cal-CAB)
  • Tata Institute for Genetics and Society
• 4 Organized Research Units
  • BioCircuits Institute
  • Center for Circadian Biology
  • Food and Fuel for the 21st Century (FF-21)
  • Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind
• 302,610 square feet of research space, teaching labs, support space, and a multi-use Biology Field Station with 4 arable acres and associated greenhouses and research space