University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States, tracing its roots to 1891 as an independent teachers college and joining the University of California system in 1944 as the third-oldest campus in the system after Berkeley and UCLA.加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉分校（简称 UCSB）是位于美国加利福尼亚州圣巴巴拉县的公立土地拨赠研究型大学，前身可追溯至 1891 年创立的独立师范学院，1944 年加入加州大学系统，是系统中继伯克利分校与洛杉矶分校之后第三古老的校区。

The campus sits on an oceanfront tract of a converted World War II era Marine Corps air station, runs three undergraduate colleges and two graduate schools that offer more than 200 degrees and programs, is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, is counted as a Public Ivy, and places 173rd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.校园坐落在由二战时期海军陆战队航空站改造而成的海滨地块上，下设三所本科学院与两所研究生院，共开设 200 多个学位与项目，位列 R1 类「极高度研究活动」博士学位授予大学，被视为「公立常春藤」之一，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 173。

History

• UCSB traces its origins to the Anna Blake School, founded in 1891, which offered training in home economics and industrial arts and was renamed the Anna Blake Manual Training School in 1899.学校前身是 1891 年创立的安娜·布雷克学校（Anna Blake School），开设家政与工艺培训课程，1899 年改名安娜·布雷克手工训练学校。

• The state took over the school in 1909 and turned it into the Santa Barbara State Normal School to train teachers for the public schools, and it became the Santa Barbara State College in 1921.1909 年州政府接管该校，改为培养师资的圣巴巴拉州立师范学校（Santa Barbara State Normal School），1921 年升格为圣巴巴拉州立学院（Santa Barbara State College）。

• In 1944 intense lobbying by a Santa Barbara interest group led by Thomas Storke and Pearl Chase persuaded the State Legislature, Governor Earl Warren and the Regents of the University of California to move the state college into the more research-oriented University of California system.1944 年，由 Thomas Storke 与 Pearl Chase 牵头的圣巴巴拉地方利益集团展开密集游说，促使州议会、州长 Earl Warren 与加州大学评议会同意把这所州立学院并入研究导向更强的加州大学系统。

• The State College system sued to stop the takeover, but the governor did not support the suit, and a state constitutional amendment passed in 1946 barred any later conversion of state colleges into University of California campuses.州立学院系统曾起诉阻止这一合并，但州长不予支持，1946 年州宪法修正案获得通过，禁止此后再把州立学院转为加州大学校区。

• From 1944 to 1958 the school was known as Santa Barbara College of the University of California, and the head of the campus, titled a president under the state college, was restyled a provost.1944 至 1958 年间学校名为加州大学圣巴巴拉学院（Santa Barbara College of the University of California），校区主管的称谓也由州立学院时期的校长（president）改为教务长（provost）。

• The regents first envisioned a small liberal arts college of several thousand students, a so-called Williams College of the West, and chronologically UCSB became the third general-education campus of the University of California after Berkeley and UCLA, the only other state campus ever acquired by the system.校董们最初只设想办一所数千人规模的小型文理学院，即所谓「西部的威廉姆斯学院」，按时间顺序 UCSB 成为加州大学系统继伯克利与洛杉矶之后第三所通识教育校区，也是加州大学系统唯一收购自州立系统的校区。

• The original campus comprised only 100 acres of largely unusable land on a seaside mesa, while the availability of a 400-acre portion of the Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara, used by the military until 1946 on another mesa in Goleta and offered free by the federal government, made that site the campus in 1949.原校区只有海滨台地上 100 英亩多半无法利用的土地，而联邦政府无偿提供的戈立塔（Goleta）另一处台地上 400 英亩海军陆战队航空站用地（军方用到 1946 年）使该地于 1949 年成为校址。

• Planners had anticipated only 3,000 to 3,500 students, but the post-World War II baby boom drove the 1958 designation of a general campus and the change of name to the University of California, Santa Barbara, while the industrial arts program for which the state college had been famous was discontinued.规划者原先只预期 3000 至 3500 名学生，但二战后的婴儿潮促使学校 1958 年升格为综合校区并改用现名，曾使州立学院成名的手工工艺专业同时停办。

• A chancellor, Samuel B. Gould, was appointed in 1959 to head the new general campus, an office created in 1952 to lead individual University of California campuses.1959 年 Samuel B. Gould 受任新综合校区首任校长，「校长」（chancellor）这一职位设于 1952 年，用于领导加州大学各校区。

• In 1959 the professor Douwe Stuurman hosted the English writer Aldous Huxley as the university's first visiting professor, and Huxley delivered a lecture series called The Human Situation.1959 年，在教授 Douwe Stuurman 邀请下，英国作家 Aldous Huxley 成为学校首位客座教授，并开设系列讲座《The Human Situation》。

• In 1968 twelve Black students occupied North Hall, temporarily renaming it Malcolm X Hall, to force Chancellor Vernon Cheadle and the administration to acknowledge the needs of Black students, and the university answered by creating the Department of Black Studies.1968 年，十二名黑人学生占领北楼（North Hall）并短暂改名为 Malcolm X Hall，迫使校长 Vernon Cheadle 与校方正视黑人学生的诉求，学校随后设立黑人研究系。

• In the late 1960s and early 1970s UCSB became one of the national hotbeds of anti-Vietnam War activism, a 1969 bombing at the faculty club killed the caretaker Dover Sharp, and a spring 1970 arson in the student community of Isla Vista included the burning of a Bank of America branch.1960 年代末至 1970 年代初，UCSB 成为全国反越战活动的重镇之一，1969 年教师俱乐部爆炸案致看门人 Dover Sharp 身亡，1970 年春景岛（Isla Vista）学生社区纵火案烧毁一家美国银行分行。

• During the unrest one student, Kevin Moran, was shot and killed by police, and Governor Ronald Reagan responded by imposing a curfew and ordering the National Guard to enforce it, so armed guardsmen became a common sight on campus and in Isla Vista.动荡中学生 Kevin Moran 被警察开枪打死，州长 Ronald Reagan 随即宣布宵禁并派国民警卫队强制执行，武装卫兵由此常见于校园与景岛街头。

• In 1995 UCSB was elected to the Association of American Universities, an organization of leading research universities that then counted 59 members in the United States and two in Canada.1995 年 UCSB 获选加入美国大学协会（Association of American Universities），这一顶尖研究型大学组织当时在美国有 59 所成员校、加拿大有两所。

• Henry T. Yang, a professor of mechanical engineering, was appointed the fifth chancellor in 1994 and served until 14 July 2025, more than 31 years in office and the longest-serving chancellor in the history of the University of California.机械工程教授 Henry T. Yang 于 1994 年受任第五任校长，任职至 2025 年 7 月 14 日，逾 31 年的任期使其成为加州大学历史上任职最久的校长。

• The Institute for Energy Efficiency was founded in 2008 as a cross-disciplinary institute meant to integrate the campus's many energy-efficiency research projects and provide a focus for work in the field.能源效率研究所（Institute for Energy Efficiency）于 2008 年成立，作为交叉学科研究机构整合校内各类能效研究项目，为该领域工作提供聚焦点。

• On 23 May 2014 a killing spree in Isla Vista left six people dead, all of them UCSB students, in an attack by a former Santa Barbara City College student that drew national attention to the community adjoining the campus.2014 年 5 月 23 日，景岛发生连环杀人事件，六名遇害者均为 UCSB 学生，凶手是圣巴巴拉城市学院一名前学生，事件使与校园相邻的这一社区受到全国关注。

• In 2015 the university was designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution, reflecting a student body in which Hispanic and Latino students accounted for about a quarter of enrollment.2015 年学校获认定为西班牙裔服务机构（Hispanic-Serving Institution），其时西班牙裔与拉美裔学生约占学生总数的四分之一。

• Plans for the eleven-story Munger Hall dormitory, funded by a promised 200 million dollar donation from Charles Munger, were cancelled in August 2023 after the architect Dennis McFadden resigned from the campus design review committee and protests followed from students and the American Institute of Architects.由 Charles Munger 承诺捐赠 2 亿美元兴建的十一层 Munger Hall 宿舍，在建筑师 Dennis McFadden 退出校园设计审查委员会及学生与美国建筑师公会抗议之后，于 2023 年 8 月被取消。

• On 17 July 2025 the Board of Regents announced that Dennis Assanis would take office as the sixth chancellor on 1 September 2025, the campus's first new leader in 31 years, after David Marshall had served as interim chancellor from 15 July 2025.2025 年 7 月 17 日，加州大学评议会宣布 Dennis Assanis 将于 9 月 1 日出任第六任校长，这是学校 31 年来首次换帅，此前 David Marshall 自 7 月 15 日起任代理校长。

Academics

• UC Santa Barbara is a large, comprehensive, primarily residential doctoral university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity.加州大学圣巴巴拉分校是一所大型综合性、以住校为主的博士学位授予大学，通过西部学校和学院协会（Western Association of Schools and Colleges）认证，并列 R1 类「极高度研究活动」大学。

• The university is organized into three undergraduate colleges, the College of Letters and Science, the College of Engineering and the College of Creative Studies, and two graduate schools, the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education.学校下设文理学院（College of Letters and Science）、工程学院（College of Engineering）与创新研究学院（College of Creative Studies）三所本科学院，以及布伦环境科学与管理学院（Bren School of Environmental Science and Management）与格维茨教育研究学院（Gevirtz Graduate School of Education）两所研究生院。

• Five colleges and schools together offer 87 undergraduate degrees and 55 graduate degrees, and the campus confers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Music degrees as well as Master of Arts, Master of Science, PhD, Master of Music, Doctor of Musical Arts, Master of Education and Doctor of Education degrees.五个学院共开设 87 个本科学位与 55 个研究生学位，可授予文学士、理学士与音乐学士，以及文学硕士、理学硕士、哲学博士、音乐硕士、音乐艺术博士、教育硕士与教育博士等学位。

• The College of Creative Studies offers an alternative approach to education by supporting advanced, independent work in the arts, mathematics and the sciences.创新研究学院另辟蹊径，支持学生在艺术、数学与理科领域开展高年级水平的独立研究与创作。

• As of fall 2024 the university enrolled 26,133 students, of whom 23,181 were undergraduates and 2,952 postgraduates, making UCSB the sixth-largest campus in the University of California system by enrollment.截至 2024 年秋季，学校在读学生 26133 人，其中本科生 23181 人、研究生 2952 人，是加州大学系统中学生规模第六大的校区。

• The academic staff numbered 4,378 in fall 2024, and the campus granted 5,812 bachelor's, 578 master's and 354 doctoral degrees in the 2010-2011 academic year.2024 年秋季专任教师为 4378 人，2010 至 2011 学年共授出学士学位 5812 个、硕士学位 578 个、博士学位 354 个。

• Admission is rated as most selective by U.S. News and World Report, and the campus no longer uses SAT or ACT scores in admission decisions or for scholarships.《美国新闻与世界报道》将学校录取难度评为「最具选择性」，学校在录取与奖学金评定中已不再使用 SAT 或 ACT 成绩。

• For the 2024 incoming class, 110,266 first-year applicants sought places, 36,347 were admitted and 5,008 enrolled, an acceptance rate of 33.0 percent with an average high school grade point average of 4.3.2024 级新生共有 110266 人申请，36347 人获录取，5008 人注册入学，录取率 33.0%，录取者平均高中成绩点为 4.3。

• A 2016 admit rate of 32.7 percent made UCSB the third most selective campus of the University of California, behind only Berkeley and UCLA.2016 年 32.7% 的录取率使 UCSB 成为加州大学系统中第三难申请的校区，仅次于伯克利与洛杉矶。

• According to the National Science Foundation, UC Santa Barbara spent 305.48 million dollars on research and development in fiscal 2023, ranking 105th among institutions in the United States.据美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）统计，学校 2023 财年研发支出达 3.0548 亿美元，在全美高校中列第 105。

• In fiscal 2020 the campus budgeted 235.3 million dollars for research, including 60.5 million from the National Science Foundation, 40 million from the Department of Defense, 28 million from the University of California General Fund, 19.5 million from industry and 17 million from the National Institutes of Health.2020 财年学校研究预算为 2.353 亿美元，其中国家科学基金会资助 6050 万美元、国防部 4000 万、加州大学普通基金 2800 万、企业界 1950 万、国立卫生研究院 1700 万。

• From 2005 to 2009 Thomson Reuters ranked UC Santa Barbara fourth in the United States for relative citation impact, behind MIT, Caltech and Princeton University.2005 至 2009 年间，汤姆逊路透社按相对引用影响力将学校排在全美第四，仅次于 MIT、加州理工学院与普林斯顿大学。

• UCSB hosts 12 national research centers and institutes, eight of them supported by the National Science Foundation, among them the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, the Southern California Earthquake Center, the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies and the California Nanosystems Institute.学校设有 12 个国家级研究中心与研究所，其中八个由国家科学基金会资助，包括卡维利理论物理研究所（Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics）、国家生态分析与综合研究所（National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis）、南加州地震中心（Southern California Earthquake Center）、UCSB 空间研究中心（UCSB Center for Spatial Studies）与加州纳米系统研究所（California Nanosystems Institute）。

• The campus is home to Microsoft Station Q, a research group working on topological quantum computing directed by the Fields medalist Michael Freedman, and to the NSF Quantum Foundry, while the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies is an affiliate of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis.校园内还设有由菲尔兹奖得主 Michael Freedman 主持、从事拓扑量子计算研究的微软 Station Q 研究组，以及美国国家科学基金会量子铸造厂（NSF Quantum Foundry），空间研究中心则是国家地理信息与分析中心（National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis）的附属机构。

• The Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, founded in 1973 as the Community and Organization Research Institute, absorbed the Social Process Research Institute in 1990 and now covers work in the social sciences and the humanities.社会、行为与经济研究所（ISBER）1973 年以社区与组织研究所之名创立，1990 年并入社会过程研究所，现已涵盖社会科学与人文领域的研究。

• Corporate research partners in the College of Engineering include the military contractors Raytheon Vision Systems, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.工程学院的合作研究企业包括军火承包商 Raytheon Vision Systems、Lockheed Martin 与 Northrop Grumman。

• UCSB was the third host node on the ARPAnet and holds memberships in the Association of American Universities, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities and the Universities Research Association.UCSB 曾是阿帕网（ARPAnet）的第三个主机节点，现为美国大学协会、环太平洋大学联盟（Association of Pacific Rim Universities）与大学研究协会（Universities Research Association）成员。

• The University of California is governed by a 26-member Board of Regents, of which 18 members are appointed by the Governor of California to twelve-year terms, seven serve ex officio and one is a student regent.加州大学由 26 人组成的评议会（Board of Regents）治理，其中 18 人由加州州长任命、任期 12 年，七人为当然成员，另有一名学生评议员。

• The operating budget was 1.13 billion dollars in 2023 and the endowment stood at 665.9 million dollars in 2024.学校 2023 年运营预算为 11.3 亿美元，2024 年捐赠基金为 6.659 亿美元。

Campus

• The campus sits on cliffs directly above the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, about ten miles west of the city of Santa Barbara and some 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, and it is completely autonomous from local government, never having been annexed by the city of Santa Barbara or the younger city of Goleta.校园位于圣巴巴拉县俯临太平洋的悬崖之上，在圣巴巴拉市区以西约 10 英里、洛杉矶西北约 100 英里，行政上完全独立于地方政府，从未被圣巴巴拉市或更年轻的戈立塔市兼并。

• The grounds are divided into four parts: the Main or East Campus of 708 acres, which houses all academic units and the majority of undergraduate housing, plus the Storke Campus, the West Campus and the North Campus, together surrounding the unincorporated community of Isla Vista.校园分为四部分：主校区即东校区，占地 708 英亩，集中了全部教学单位与大部分本科生宿舍，另有斯托克校区（Storke Campus）、西校区（West Campus）与北校区（North Campus），四者环抱未建制的景岛社区。

• UCSB is one of the few universities in the United States with its own beach: bordered by the Pacific on two sides, the campus has miles of coastline, a lagoon and the rocky extension of Goleta Point, also known as Campus Point, and it owns the Coal Oil Point nature preserve on the West Campus.UCSB 是美国少数拥有私家海滩的高校之一：校园两面临太平洋，海岸线绵延数英里，有自己的潟湖与被称作「校园角」的 Goleta Point 岩岬，西校区还管理着 Coal Oil Point 自然保护区。

• The whole campus covers 1,127 acres, and a recent survey found that 53 percent of UCSB students get around by bicycle, with paths across the campus, around the lagoon and along the beach.全校占地 1127 英亩，近期一项调查显示 53% 的学生以自行车出行，校园、潟湖周边与海滩一带遍布骑行道。

• Much of the early architecture was designed by the architect William Pereira and his partner Charles Luckman and made heavy use of custom-tinted and patterned concrete blocks, a design element carried over into many of the school's subsequent buildings.校园早期建筑多出自建筑师 William Pereira 及其搭档 Charles Luckman 之手，大量使用定制着色、带图案的混凝土砌块，这一特色延续到此后许多建筑。

• Storke Tower, completed in 1969, is the tallest steel and concrete structure in Santa Barbara County at 53 meters, can be seen from most of the campus, overlooks Storke Plaza and houses a five-octave carillon of 61 bells, with the radio station KCSB 91.9 and the Daily Nexus headquartered beneath it.斯托克塔（Storke Tower）1969 年落成，高 53 米，是圣巴巴拉县最高的钢混结构建筑，校园大部可见，俯瞰斯托克广场，内置 61 钟五组八度钟琴，电台 KCSB 91.9 与《Daily Nexus》报社即设于塔下。

• Campbell Hall is the university's largest lecture hall with 862 seats and the main venue of the UCSB Arts and Lectures series, which presents special performances, films and lectures for the campus and the Santa Barbara community.坎贝尔礼堂（Campbell Hall）是学校最大的阶梯教室，有 862 个座位，也是 UCSB 艺术与讲座系列（UCSB Arts & Lectures）的主要场地，为校园与圣巴巴拉社区呈现演出、电影与讲座。

• The UCSB Libraries, comprising the Davidson Library and the Arts Library, hold more than three million bound volumes plus millions of microforms, government documents, manuscripts and maps, the East Asian collection on the fifth floor of the Davidson Library holds more than 160,000 volumes in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and the Davidson Library broke ground on a major addition in June 2013 that was completed in November 2015 and reopened to the public in January 2016.UCSB 图书馆系统由戴维森图书馆（Davidson Library）与艺术图书馆（Arts Library）组成，藏有逾 300 万册图书及数百万件缩微胶片、政府文件、手稿与地图，戴维森图书馆五楼的东亚馆藏收藏中文、日文与韩文图书逾 16 万册，该馆 2013 年 6 月动工扩建，2015 年 11 月竣工，2016 年 1 月重新对公众开放，改造后使用面积增加 5600 平方米。

• There are eight residence halls, seven of them on the main campus: five named after the Channel Islands, namely Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, San Miguel and San Nicolas, served by the Ortega and De La Guerra dining commons, while San Rafael and Manzanita Village, completed in 2002 as the newest hall, stand on the west side near the Carrillo Dining Commons.学校共有八栋宿舍，七栋位于主校区：五栋以海峡诸岛命名，即 Santa Rosa、Santa Cruz、Anacapa、San Miguel 与 San Nicolas，配套 Ortega 与 De La Guerra 两个食堂，西校区则有 San Rafael 与 2002 年落成的全校最新宿舍 Manzanita Village，邻近 Carrillo 食堂。

• Graduate and family housing includes San Clemente Villages, the Santa Ynez, El Dorado and Westgate apartment complexes and the Storke Apartments, and the Sierra Madre Villages completed in September 2015 was the first residential complex in the University of California system certified as LEED platinum.研究生与家庭住宿包括 San Clemente Villages、Santa Ynez、El Dorado 与 Westgate 公寓及斯托克公寓，2015 年 9 月落成的 Sierra Madre Villages 是加州大学系统首个获 LEED 铂金级认证的居住建筑群。

Reputation

• UC Santa Barbara places 173rd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, joint 71st in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 61st in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.加州大学圣巴巴拉分校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 173，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 71，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中列第 61。

• U.S. News and World Report placed UCSB 30th among national universities, 6th among public universities and 56th in the global rankings in 2021, and 7th among public universities and tied for 32nd nationally in its 2022 edition.《美国新闻与世界报道》2021 年将学校列为全美国家大学第 30、公立大学第 6、全球大学第 56，2022 年版则列公立大学第 7、国家大学并列第 32。

• The university is counted as a Public Ivy, and Forbes magazine ranked it 24th in the nation and the 5th best public university in its 2024 rankings.学校被视为「公立常春藤」之一，《福布斯》杂志 2024 年将其列为全美第 24 位、公立高校第 5 位。

• OpenAlex records 143,069 works by the university that have drawn 18,548,978 citations.OpenAlex 收录学校论文 143069 篇，被引 18548978 次。

• UCSB alumni, faculty and researchers have included 11 Nobel Prize laureates, one Fields medalist, founders of more than 90 companies, 50 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 34 members of the National Academy of Engineering and 56 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.UCSB 的校友、教师与研究人员中先后走出 11 位诺贝尔奖得主、一位菲尔兹奖得主，创办了 90 多家公司，并有 50 位美国国家科学院院士、34 位国家工程院院士与 56 位美国艺术与科学院院士。

• The current faculty includes seven Nobel laureates and a Fields medalist, together with 29 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 27 members of the National Academy of Engineering and 31 members of the Academy of Arts and Sciences.现职教师中包括七位诺贝尔奖得主与一位菲尔兹奖得主，另有美国国家科学院院士 29 位、国家工程院院士 27 位、美国艺术与科学院院士 31 位。

• The Nobel laureates include Walter Kohn of the 1998 prize in chemistry, Alan Heeger of the 2000 prize in chemistry, Herbert Kroemer and David Gross of the 2000 and 2004 prizes in physics, Finn Kydland of the 2004 prize in economics, Shuji Nakamura of the 2014 prize in physics, and John Martinis and Michel Devoret of the 2025 prize in physics.这些诺贝尔奖得主包括 1998 年化学奖得主 Walter Kohn、2000 年化学奖得主 Alan Heeger、2000 年与 2004 年物理学奖得主 Herbert Kroemer 与 David Gross、2004 年经济学奖得主 Finn Kydland、2014 年物理学奖得主 Shuji Nakamura，以及 2025 年物理学奖得主 John Martinis 与 Michel Devoret。

• The 2016 edition of U.S. News and World Report placed the graduate programs in materials engineering and chemical engineering second and ninth in the United States and graduate physics tenth, with the fifth-best showing in condensed matter physics and the seventh-best in quantum physics.《美国新闻与世界报道》2016 年版将学校材料工程与化学工程研究生项目列为全美第 2 与第 9，物理学研究生项目列第 10，其中凝聚态物理第 5、量子物理第 7。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed UCSB 48th worldwide for 2016-17, while the Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked it 42nd in the world and 28th in the United States in 2016.泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名 2016 至 2017 年度将学校列为全球第 48，软科世界大学学术排名 2016 年则列全球第 42、美国第 28。

• PayScale's 2015-16 College Salary Report ranked UCSB first in the United States for computer science, Washington Monthly named it the 20th best national university in 2020, Kiplinger placed it 30th of 174 best-value public colleges and fifth in California in 2019, and Money magazine ranked it 30th of 744 schools in 2019.PayScale 2015 至 2016 年度大学薪酬报告将学校计算机科学专业列为全美第一，《华盛顿月刊》2020 年评其为全美第 20 佳国家大学，Kiplinger 2019 年将其列为全美 174 所最具价值公立高校第 30 位、加州第 5，《金钱》杂志同年列为 744 所高校第 30。

Student life

• The university's motto is the Latin phrase Fiat lux, meaning let there be light, the motto shared across the whole University of California system.学校校训为拉丁文「Fiat lux」，意为「要有光」，与整个加州大学系统一致。

• The school colors are navy and gold, the sports nickname is the Gauchos, and the mascot is Olé the Gaucho.学校代表色为海军蓝与金色，校队昵称「Gauchos」（高乔人），吉祥物为「Olé the Gaucho」。

• The Gauchos compete in NCAA Division I as members of the Big West Conference, while the men's water polo, men's and women's swimming and men's volleyball teams play in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.高乔人队以 NCAA 第一级别成员身份征战大西联盟（Big West Conference），男子水球、男女游泳与男子排球队则参加太平洋山体育联合会（Mountain Pacific Sports Federation）赛事。

• UCSB won its first NCAA men's soccer championship in 2006, its second national title after the 1979 water polo crown, and the surf team won a record fourteenth national college title in the 2010 finals of National Scholastic Surfing Association competition.学校 2006 年首夺 NCAA 男子足球冠军，这是继 1979 年水球夺冠后的第二个全国冠军，冲浪队则在 2010 年全国高校冲浪协会总决赛中创纪录地第十四次夺冠。

• More than 700 students take part in club sports teams covering alpine racing, cycling, fencing, lacrosse, rugby, sailing, ice hockey, triathlon, rowing and water skiing, alongside a large intramural program.逾 700 名学生参加高山滑雪、自行车、击剑、长曲棍球、橄榄球、帆船、冰球、铁人三项、赛艇与滑水等俱乐部校队，校内另有规模庞大的业余联赛（intramural program）。

• Student media include the daily newspaper Daily Nexus, the campus radio station KCSB 91.9, the weekly newspaper The Bottom Line and the conservative magazine The Gaucho Free Press.学生媒体包括日报《Daily Nexus》、校园电台 KCSB 91.9、周报《The Bottom Line》与保守派杂志《The Gaucho Free Press》。

• In the 2008 presidential election UCSB won a national college competition for student voter registration by signing up 10,857 voters, or 51.5 percent of the student population, and the campus remains politically active with organizations from College Republicans to the Queer Student Union.2008 年总统大选中，UCSB 在全国高校选民登记竞赛中注册了 10857 名选民、占学生总数 51.5% 而夺冠，校园政治活跃，从大学共和党人组织到酷儿学生联盟等团体并存。

• The Recreation Center offers classes, swimming pools, racquetball courts and a rock wall, the University Center houses a bookstore and restaurants, and the campus health clinic runs the only student paramedic rescue unit in the University of California system.娱乐中心（Recreation Center）开设课程并设泳池、回力球场与攀岩墙，大学中心（University Center）内设书店与餐厅，校园诊所则运营着加州大学系统唯一的学生急救救援队（paramedic rescue unit）。

• The UCSB Family Vacation Center, founded in 1969, is a summer family camp on campus that draws over 2,000 guests each summer with a staff of more than 50 trained largely from the student body, and the student-run SexInfo program was started in 1976 by the professors John and Janice Baldwin.1969 年创立的 UCSB 家庭度假中心是设在校内的暑期家庭营地，每年接待逾 2000 名客人，50 多名员工多为受训学生，学生运营的性知识科普项目 SexInfo 则由 John 与 Janice Baldwin 两位教授于 1976 年创办。

Notable people

• Thomas Storke and Pearl Chase led the 1944 lobbying campaign that brought the state college into the University of California system, giving the campus its research-university character.Thomas Storke 与 Pearl Chase 领导了 1944 年促使州立学院并入加州大学系统的游说运动，奠定了本校的研究型大学底色。

• Samuel B. Gould was appointed the first chancellor in 1959, when the college became a general campus of the University of California.Samuel B. Gould 于 1959 年受任首任校长，其时学校刚升格为加州大学综合校区。

• Dennis Assanis became the sixth chancellor on 1 September 2025, an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering who had previously served as president of the University of Delaware from 2016 to 2025.Dennis Assanis 于 2025 年 9 月 1 日出任第六任校长，他是美国国家工程院院士，2016 至 2025 年曾任特拉华大学校长。

• Walter Kohn received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for density-functional theory, Alan Heeger shared the 2000 chemistry prize for the discovery and development of conductive polymers, and Herbert Kroemer and David Gross shared the 2000 and 2004 prizes in physics.Walter Kohn 因密度泛函理论获 1998 年诺贝尔化学奖，Alan Heeger 因导电聚合物的发现与发展共享 2000 年诺贝尔化学奖，Herbert Kroemer 与 David Gross 分获 2000 年与 2004 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• Finn Kydland shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics for work on dynamic macroeconomics, and Shuji Nakamura received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes.Finn Kydland 因动态宏观经济学研究共享 2004 年诺贝尔经济学奖，Shuji Nakamura 因发明高效蓝色发光二极管获 2014 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• John Martinis and Michel Devoret shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in superconducting circuits.John Martinis 与 Michel Devoret 因发现超导电路中的宏观量子隧穿与能量量子化共享 2025 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• Carol Greider, who graduated from the College of Creative Studies with a Bachelor of Arts in biology in 1983, shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomerase.1983 年毕业于创新研究学院生物学专业的 Carol Greider 因发现染色体端粒酶保护机制共享 2009 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• The mathematician Michael Freedman, a 1986 Fields medalist, directed Microsoft Station Q, and the number theorist Yitang Zhang, a MacArthur Fellow known for bounded gaps between primes, taught in the mathematics department.数学家 Michael Freedman 是 1986 年菲尔兹奖得主并主持微软 Station Q，以素数间隙研究闻名、获麦克阿瑟天才奖的数论学家张益唐曾在数学系任教。

• The oceanographer Robert Ballard, a 1965 graduate in chemistry and geology, discovered the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 1985.海洋学家 Robert Ballard 1965 年毕业获化学与地质学位，1985 年发现泰坦尼克号沉船。

• Leroy Chiao earned his master's degree in 1985 and his doctorate in 1987 at UCSB, became the first Chinese-American to walk in space and later commanded the International Space Station.焦立中（Leroy Chiao）1985 年获硕士、1987 年获博士学位，是首位进行太空漫步的华裔宇航员，后出任国际空间站指令长。

• The physicist Shoucheng Zhang held a postdoctoral fellowship from 1987 to 1989, the chemist Peidong Yang from 1997 to 1999 and the chemist Dongyuan Zhao from 1996 to 1998, while the geographer Xiaowen Li took his doctorate in 1985 and the physical chemist Zhu Qingshi was a visiting scholar.物理学家张首晟 1987 至 1989 年在此从事博士后研究，化学家杨培东 1997 至 1999 年、赵东元 1996 至 1998 年先后在此博士后研究，地理学家李小文 1985 年获博士学位，物理化学家朱清时曾任访问学者。

• The actor Michael Douglas received his Bachelor of Arts in drama in 1968 and won the Academy Award for Best Actor, while Jeffrey O. Henley graduated in economics in 1966 and became chairman of Oracle Corporation, Kazuhiro Tsuga took his master's degree in 1986 and became chairman of Panasonic, and Anders Dahlvig earned his master's degree in 1982 and led IKEA as president and chief executive.演员 Michael Douglas 1968 年获戏剧文学士并摘得奥斯卡最佳男主角，Jeffrey O. Henley 1966 年经济学毕业、后任甲骨文公司主席，津贺一宏 1986 年获硕士、后任松下电器主席，Anders Dahlvig 1982 年获硕士、后任宜家家居总裁兼首席执行官。