UCSB Geography

Geography Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The department currently has 28 faculty, 10 administrative staff, 4 research staff, 7 professional researchers, 22 specialists/postdocs, nearly 100 graduate students and over 200 undergraduates. The department also houses 2 research centers: The Climate Hazards Center and spatial@ucsb. UCSB Geography is internationally recognized as one of the best Departments of Geography in the world, and we have been ranked among the top doctoral programs in the U.S. by a variety of indices for the past two decades. In 1995, The National Research Council ranked us number 4 in the nation, based upon reputation by peer review. In its 2010 Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs, they used a new methodology designed to show the full complexity of the data and the difficulty of giving a unique ranking, and each program and department was given a range of possible rankings, depending on how much weight was given to the different co...