University of California, San Diego

UCSD is quickly becoming the nation’s leader Integrated Medicine – medicine that begins with UCSD researchers, academics, physicians and philosophers, and ends with the advancement of medical science, technology and, most importantly, treatment for patients in San Diego, the Southern California region and around the world.

Faculty 700

Students 1668

Medical 502
Pharmacy 25
(admitted its first class of 25 in Sept. 2002)
M.D./Ph.D. 51
Postdoctoral Fellows 492
Interns & Residents 618

Hospitals
Thornton Hospital, La Jolla

UCSD Medical Center, Hillcrest

The hospitals, together, are
licensed for a combined 530
beds, with approximately 21,000
annual admissions.

Affiliations
San Diego VA Medical Center
San Diego Children’s Hospital
Scripps Mercy Medical Center
San Diego Naval Medical Center
UCSD Perlman Outpatient Center

And there's more...

Faculty Quality
UCSD has 40 School of Medicine faculty who are members of the National Academy of Sciences/ Institute of Medicine.

National Ranking
UCSD ranks #7 in the country in knowledge creation (based on faculty research cited in prestigious journals).

UCSD ranks #5 among public schools in US News & World Report ranking of best research medical schools, #16 overall and #6 among medical schools in the primary care category.

UCSD ranks #4 in the nation in overall research impact, #2 in clinical medicine and #3 in pharmacology by the Institute for Scientific Information.

The UCSD Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center is a designated comprehensive cancer center, one of only 41 in the US.

The National Research Council ranks UCSD tenth in the nation in the excellence of its graduate programs and the quality of its faculty. The science programs rated among the best are those in: