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BEST VALUE COLLEGE
“ We ’ re creating the environment where no patient will ever have to leave San Diego to get world class health care .”
— PATTY MAYSENT , CEO OF UC SAN DIEGO HEALTH , on the grand opening of the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Building , part of a national consortium energizing bench-to-bedside efforts .
UC San Diego ranks the fifth Best Value College by Forbes for 2016 , based on tuition costs , school quality , graduation rate and post-grad earnings .
TOP 10
The Preuss School UCSD was ranked among the top 10 schools in California by U . S . News & World Report , and earned a Gold Award for its educational achievements .
SURVEY SAYS …
A multimillion dollar bequest by esteemed pollster Daniel Yankelovich will help make the Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research the model in using social sciences to address the nation ’ s most urgent problems .
ALARM BUZZ
Bees use sophisticated signals to warn each other about danger from predators , according to UC San Diego biologists . The alarm level varies by frequency , pitch and duration of pulse .
PEACE OUT
For the sixth year in a row , UC San Diego makes the top 15 schools for producing the most Peace Corps volunteers ers .
102,678
Record number of freshman and transfer applications for fall 2016 . UC San Diego had the second highest number of applicants among all UC campuses .
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