Building an innovation-ready workforce
UC San Diego is one of the world’s premier research universities and the largest grantee with the Department of Defense among California’s universities. It is also one of the nation’s top three universities in startup creation.
The NISEC programs integrate the prowess in research and technology commercialization, to build an innovation-ready workforce, with an exposure and inclination towards careers in national security.
Research Themes
- Autonomous naval platforms
- Integrative environmental-platform modeling
- Materials and energy resilience under climate predictions
Innovation Training
UC San Diego by the numbers
4th
US public university in worldwide research rankings
$1.8 billion
In research expenditures
1000+
Companies utilize, or have utilized technology created at UC San Diego
10,000
Graduate students
33,000
Undergraduate students
UC San Diego started operation in 1964
