Innovation Happens Here

The UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering is a premier research school set apart by our entrepreneurial culture and integrative engineering approach. We are the youngest and fastest rising among the nation's top 15 engineering schools, and the largest engineering school in the renown University of California system.

The Jacobs School's mission is to educate tomorrow's technology leaders and to seek discoveries that fuel economic prosperity of the nation, and enhance the quality of life for people everywhere. Bioengineering; earthquake and renewal engineering; communications, security and networks; materials; and systems and controls are among our strengths.

Throughout our B.S., masters, and Ph.D. programs, our education model focuses on deep and broad engineering fundamentals, enhanced by real-world design and research, often in partnership with industry. Through our signature Team Internship and Teams in Engineering Service programs, we encourage students to develop their communications and leadership skills while working in the kind of multi-disciplinary team environment experienced by real-world engineers.

Jacobs School graduates understand how to think through engineering problems toward creative solutions. Our alumni are leaders in industry and academia, and 80% our alumni live and work in California.

We pursue a thriving research agenda, and the Jacobs School ranks third in the country for research expenditures per faculty member. We are home to exciting research facilities, such as the San Diego Supercomputer Center, a national resource for data-intensive computing; our Powell Structural Research Laboratories, the largest and most active in the world for full-scale structural testing; and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, which is forging new ground in multi-disciplinary applications for information technology.

Located at the hub of San Diego's thriving technology industry, the Jacobs School proactively seeks corporate partners to collaborate with us in education and innovation. More than 150 companies are involved in our Corporate Affiliates Program , internships and student design projects, research centers and sponsored research projects. Through our von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism & Technology Advancement , we seek to transfer our discoveries to the commercial sector. Venture firms have invested more than $40 million in Jacobs School faculty inventions within the past two years.