The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California, United States. It is part of the University of California university system.
Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an independent teachers' college, UCSB joined California State system in the 1920s and then the University of California system in 1944. It is the third-oldest undergraduate campus in the system, after UC Berkeley and UCLA. Total student enrollment for 2022 was 26,961; 23,460 undergraduate and 2,961 graduate students.
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