Facts & Figures
TIA Facts & Figures
Invention Portfolio by Discipline


By the numbers…
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.
UCSB Facts & Figures
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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