Invention Portfolio by Discipline

• Averaging 90 invention disclosures annually

• Over 650 active inventions

• 4-6 new startup companies based on UCSB technologies formed each year (7 startups formed in FY14)

• 115+ startups formed to-date based on UCSB technology or research

• Number of active PATENTS (as of FYE16 – which is the most current):

  • 500+ US Patents

  • 250+ Foreign Patents

• 150+ currently active license agreements

• In FY16, UCSB generated one disclosure per $2.0 million in research expenditures – much more productive than the U.S. university average of $2.6 million.
  

• In FY18, UCSB had $24M in funding from industry which totals 11.5% of UCSB’s total research funding.
  

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Number of students: 22,000 overall

• Undergraduates: 18,429

• Graduates: 2,973     (Science: 730   –   Engineering: 671)

Number of faculty: 1,086

• Science and Engineering Faculty 417 (Science: 271 – Engineering: 146)

UCSB Academic Rankings & Honors:

• 39th among U.S. universities (public and private – US News & World Report)

• 5th among public U.S. universities  (US News & World Report)

• 3rd in citation impact internationally (Times Higher Education Guide)

• 4th in Materials, 5th in Computer Sciences, 9th in Chemical Engineering, 10th in Physics compared to other universities
  

• 18th in Natural Sciences and Mathematics worldwide universities

• One-third of the UCSB doctoral programs have a range of rankings reaching into the top five in the country and nearly one-half have a range of rankings reaching into the top ten in the country according to the National Research Council’s 2010 Assessment of Research Doctoral Programs

• Member of the Association of American Universities (AAU)

UCSB Faculty Awards & Members/Fellows:

• Nobel Prize winners (6)

• Millennium Prize winner (1)

• American Academy of Arts & Sciences (27)

• National Academy of Sciences (38)

• National Academy of Engineering (27)

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (38)

• Royal Society of London (1)

UCSB Funding:

• Largest extramural funding source is National Science Foundation (29%) – ranked 17th in the country among the top NSF-funded institutions

• 2nd largest funding source is Department of Defense (26%) – ranked 8th among universities nationwide that receive DOD funding for basic research

• UCSB ranks 1st in funding by DOD in the University of California system