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University of California, Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz is renowned for world-changing research in biomolecular engineering, physics, marine sciences, environmental sciences, astronomy and astrophysics, and international economics, among other prestigious programs. The campus is home to the national Center for Adaptive Optics, the Laboratory for Adaptive Optics, the Institute of Marine Sciences, the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, and the nationally recognized summer repertory theater company Shakespeare Santa Cruz.

Research activity at UC Santa Cruz is interdisciplinary and collaborative and focuses on improving the planet and the lives of all its inhabitants. Recent research initiatives include the Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems, the Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC), and the discovery of the first potentially habitable planet outside our Solar System.

UC Santa Cruz's Jack Baskin School of Engineering addresses such important 21st century topics as information technology, nanotechnology, and biotechnology. The Baskin School of Engineering recently added innovative new majors in robotics engineering and computer game design, and it offers one of the few undergraduate majors in bioinformatics in the country.  
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UCSC ranked 3rd in research influence in world university survey  
October 07, 2011
By Tim Stephens 
In a recent analysis of the world's top universities, UC Santa Cruz ranked third in research influence as measured by the number of times its published work is cited by academics.........With a citation score of 99.9, UC Santa Cruz ranked behind only Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (both with top scores of 100). Three other universities--the California Institute of Technology, UC Santa Barbara, and Rice University--also had citation scores of 99.9, followed by Stanford and Harvard at 99.8.
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UCSC ranked among top 10 graduate schools for game design
Princeton Review's list of top game design programs recommends UCSC's graduate and undergraduate programs
March 05, 2012
By Tim Stephens 
The graduate programs in game design at UC Santa Cruz were named among the top 10 in the nation by the Princeton Review, an education services company. UCSC's undergraduate game design program was also recommended in the company's new lists, "Top Schools to Study Video Game Design for 2012."

"We're pleased to note that we are the only Bay Area university in the rankings, both grad and undergrad, and one of only two in California," said Michael Mateas, associate professor of computer science and director of the Center for Games and Playable Media at UCSC.
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