UC San Diego was established in 1960 beside the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which dates to 1903 and became part of the university that year. Early classes ran at Scripps while the main campus was being built, with Scripps director Roger Revelle driving the founding effort. Graduate instruction began in 1960 and the first undergraduates arrived in 1964, the year the Tritons nickname started, linked to the campus's ocean ties. Wikipedia lists 46,178 students for fall 2025, made up of 35,442 undergraduates and 10,736 postgraduates, while the Big West profile gives 42,376 without a date. The athletics department moved from NCAA Division II to Division I in the Big West in 2020, after winning 30 national championships and 150 individual NCAA titles in lower divisions. Freshmen apply through the shared UC application, reviewed without test scores.
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9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, Alabama, United States
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