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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. 

 

PhD Programs

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Engineers Shake Tallest Steel-framed Building Ever Tested on an Earthquake Simulator
July 8, 2025

A 10-story, 100-foot structure experienced simulations of real earthquakes, including the 6.9 m...

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Diet-Microbiome Links Vary by Geography and Analysis Method
July 7, 2025

In a new study from the UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation, researchers examined how diet...

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Air Pollution May Contribute to Development of Lung Cancer in Never-smokers, New Study Finds
July 2, 2025

A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposur...

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Meet Phuong Truong: alumna, lecturer, adjunct faculty, education specialist, and mom
June 30, 2025

Phuong Truong has done it all at UC San Diego: from an undergraduate student in structural engineeri...

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Living Materials Now Easier to Build with a Larger Palette of Ingredients
June 30, 2025

Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants fro...

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The Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San Diego offers excellence at scale in research, education, industry collaboration and technology transfer. The Jacobs School of Engineering ranks the #10 engineering school in the nation and #6 among public schools. A global 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. Year after year, our graduates future-proof the innovation economy. 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