I am proud to share that our UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is the #9 engineering school in the nation. This is according to the US News & World Report Rankings of Best Engineering Schools released last week. We rose one notch, up from #10 last year! Our bioengineering graduate program rose to #4 in the nation, and computer science-artificial intelligence broke into the top 10. This is just a sample of the incredible excellence all across the Jacobs School.
To the faculty, staff and students of the Jacobs School, congratulations and thank you. Your excellence, hard work and perseverance are truly inspiring.
Congratulations and thank you, as well, to everyone who partners with us on research, education, workforce development and entrepreneurship. Our industry, public sector and philanthropic partners, as well as our donors, friends and alumni are all absolutely essential to our efforts to serve as an engine of collaboration in the national interest.
The stats driving our #9 ranking shine a light on our real-world excellence — the excellence that defines all our academic departments, institutes, centers, labs and teams.
Our research expenditures, for example, rose to $329M. This is up 4.2% from last year, despite persistent uncertainty surrounding science and technology funding nationally. It is a testament to our relevance that nearly half of our research expenditures come from industry research partnerships or from philanthropic partnerships. In fact, one of my most enduring mantras is: the great engineering schools of the next decade will collaborate their way to relevance.
I am actively working with everyone in our community to ensure the Jacobs School is one of these great engineering schools, today and long into the future. If you have ideas for how we can collaborate to scale up our positive impacts across the nation, please get in touch. As always, I can be reached at DeanPisano@ucsd.edu.
Sincerely,
Al
Albert ("Al") P. Pisano
Dean, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Special Adviser to the Chancellor for Campus Strategic Initiatives