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At UC Santa Barbara, we offer a dynamic environment that prizes academic inquiry and interpersonal connection to inspire scholarly ambition, creativity, and discoveries with wide-ranging impact. We are inquisitive and curious, community-driven, and globally-focused. You will find independent thinkers and consensus builders, Nobel Laureates, and leaders chasing noble causes across our campus. But no matter how you define us, we are above all Gauchos — diverse in our pursuits, yet connected in our collective drive toward excellence. The University of California, Santa Barbara, is a leading research institution that also provides a comprehensive liberal arts learning experience. Teaching and research go hand-in-hand at UC Santa Barbara. Our students are full participants in an educational journey of discovery that stimulates independent thought, critical reasoning, and creativity. Our academic community of faculty, students, and staff is characterized by a culture of interdisciplinary collaboration that is responsive to our multicultural and global society's needs. All of this takes place within a living and learning environment like no other, as we draw inspiration from the beauty and resources of our extraordinary location at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. Each of UC Santa Barbara's five schools offers graduate and undergraduate majors, degrees, and credentials. With more than 200 options altogether, discover one (or many!) that matches your passion. You are high-achieving, and so are we. UC Santa Barbara's top rankings are a product of our numerous acclaimed programs across three colleges. Meet your academic match and excel away. You got this. A tier one research university, UC Santa Barbara, is renowned for impact across the disciplines. The same goes for our faculty, who are as accessible as they are distinguished. See for yourself. Make your mark in one of our 50-plus master's degree or Ph.D. programs. UCSB offers master's degrees and Ph.D. tracks in diverse disciplines, with top programs in engineering, the sciences, social sciences, humanities, education, and the arts. Many of them are inherently interdisciplinary, such as Materials Science, Global and International Studies, and Media Arts and Technology. World-class education and the opportunities, resources, and support for career attainment — that is what we provide our graduate students. We strive to cultivate individual strengths and talents and welcome every student as our partner. We value collaboration and discovery across disciplines and recognize the critical role of diversity in realizing our potential for excellence and innovation. Achieve your professional dreams or enhance your UCSB degree. Immerse yourself in the UC Santa Barbara way. Rub shoulders with world-renowned researchers, distinguished faculty, and top students from across the globe while taking courses and certificate programs for academic credit, professional development, and personal enrichment. Essential skills to compete in today's job market, opportunities for career advancement, and lifelong learning for students of all ages — UCSB Extension provides those things and more. We connect the campus with our growing entrepreneurial base and, with our international programs, connect visiting scholars and professionals with UCSB's world-class research and faculty, helping to shape our community's future here at home and across the globe. Advance on your career goals or take them to new heights in our Technology Management Program, a one-stop training shop for professionals and undergrads striving for technical innovation and entrepreneurship. We are innovative and entrepreneurial, and the world knows it. UC Santa Barbara is a tier-one research university, globally renowned — and ranked — for our impact across the disciplines. Our advances are changing lives and paving the way to a better future. Get hands-on from the get-go. Our faculty are famously accessible and infinitely eager to connect with curious, motivated undergraduates. Explore different fields and learn your way around a lab. Boost your abilities and build your network. You may create new knowledge on the way. To us, education extends far beyond the classroom. From our 500 student organizations to our record-setting Gaucho soccer crowds, UC Santa Barbara is culturally enriching and socially engaging. There is no community like the Gaucho community. Socially engaged and inclusive, global-minded, and environmentally aware, open, and supportive. In short, we are dynamic as all get out. With hundreds of student organizations, a culture of giving back, and a drive to pay it forward, UCSB is not just somewhere to stay and study — it is a place to grow and thrive. Welcome home. Studying is not the only key to success at UCSB. Health is crucial, too. We foster a learning and living environment that's good for the whole you — mind, body, and spirit — to nurture your academic development, resilience, and well-being. Career Services is here to help the students and recent graduates of the University of California identify and fulfill their career goals. We serve as the bridge between their college experience and employment or graduate school, helping them apply what they have learned. We look forward to serving you better, so visit us often to stay current with all the latest happenings at Career Services. Experiential work-based learning, such as internships, research, and volunteering, complements academic preparation so that students can become more confident and competitive for full-time jobs, graduate school, and other post-graduation goals. View full university

Antioch University Santa Barbara (AUSB) values student diversity and welcomes applications from all qualified international candidates. Applicants from outside the United States should plan to apply at least three to four months before the quarter starts to allow time to process all required paperwork. Antioch University's roots began as Antioch College. It first opened its doors in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Antioch's first president, Horace Mann, was a lawyer and Congressman from Massachusetts, a well-known abolitionist, and social reformer. He is considered the founder of public education in the United States, believing that a well-educated populace was essential to a healthy democracy. In his first graduation speech, Horace Mann implored the Antioch graduates to "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." Those words remain throughout our history, a guiding light of our values, and an underlying commitment to an Antioch education. Nonsectarian and co-educational from the outset, Antioch was a leader of progressive thought and innovation. Antioch was the first College in the country to have a female faculty member equal to her male counterparts. Antioch's curriculum was the same for men and women, and we admitted black and white students to learn together over a century before civil rights laws would require the same result. In the early 1860s, Antioch adopted a policy that no applicant could be rejected due to his or her race. Sadly, this was quite revolutionary for its time. The modern Antioch began to take shape in the 1920s under the leadership of President Arthur E. Morgan. As an engineer and former Chair of the Tennessee Valley Authority, he was interested in progressive education. He reorganized the Antioch curriculum to include co-op, a structured method of combining classroom-based education, and practical work experience. Antioch was the first liberal arts college in the United States to establish a co-op program. This critical innovation in experiential learning has been widely reproduced throughout higher education today. Always positioned at the forefront of social activism, the period during and after World War II proved even more groundbreaking for Antioch. During the war, Antioch participated in a program that allowed Japanese citizens incarcerated in internment camps to enroll at Antioch and move to Yellow Springs, Ohio. In the 1940s and beyond, Antioch set out to diversify the campus by offering more scholarships to people of color. Many famous African Americans graduated from the College, including Coretta Scott King, author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congressional Delegate for Wash. D.C., and A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., civil rights advocate, author, and Chief Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. Other notable Antioch alumni include two Nobel laureates, Mario Capecchi (B.S. 1961), co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and José Manuel Ramos-Horta (M.A., Peace Studies, 1984), co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, and later President of East Timor (2007-2012). The current Antioch University began to take shape in the 1960s. Antioch College's reputation for academic excellence, social relevance, activism, and experiential learning continued to grow, so did its campuses. As part of the 'University without walls' movement of the 1960s and 70s, Antioch expanded to sites across the country. The strong values-based nature of developing these campuses is important to recognize. The vision inspiring the expansion in the mid- to late 1960s and early 1970s was to serve adult learners and especially women and minorities, an approach to 'taking the ivory tower' out to the people. This was a very distinctive call for higher education at the time. The first of the adult campuses, today's Antioch University New England, was established in 1964, and the last, Antioch University Santa Barbara, was established in 1974. During this era, over 35 Antioch "satellite" campuses were founded across the country, including locations in inner cities from coast to coast, on Native-American reservations, and in international locations. Antioch also founded an innovative law school in 1972 in Washington, D.C., which operated on an experiential legal clinic teaching model. All students of the Antioch School of Law participated in the clinic, which provided legal services to poor and underserved communities in D.C. The law school now operates as The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and is no longer part of Antioch University. Antioch's name was changed in 1978 from Antioch College to Antioch University due to its expansion of programs, graduate degrees, and campuses. Nonetheless, it is the same institution that was initially incorporated in Ohio in 1852. It has been in continuous existence since then and has been continuously accredited by the Higher Learning Commission since 1926. We are proud that Antioch University had had a significant influence on higher education. The precursor to the National Council of Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), was founded by Morris Keeton when he was Antioch's Vice President of Academic Affairs. CAEL's influence was instrumental in facilitating other colleges and universities recruiting and supporting adult learners, notably as the demographics of traditional 18 to 22-year-old students decreased in the 1980s. We are also proud of the many innovations in academic programming offered by the campuses in promoting undergraduate degree completion and graduate degrees that are responsive to adult learners' needs. As examples, our New England campus offered Antioch's first APA accredited doctoral program in Clinical Psychology (PsyD), followed by a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies, one of the first in the nation. In 2001, Antioch University established a highly innovative low residency Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change. It has expanded to become Antioch's Graduate School of Leadership & Change, and a distinctive, outcomes-based, doctoral program focused on the study, research, and practice of leading positive change in workplaces and communities worldwide. In 2008, Antioch University closed its residential College campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio, due to significant enrollment and financial challenges. The College campus and other assets were then transferred in 2009 to a new Ohio non-profit corporation known as Antioch College Continuation Corporation, formed by a group of Antioch alumni. In that transaction, the University agreed to license to them the name "Antioch College." The College was subsequently reopened in 2011 as a legally separate institution, but with a shared heritage with Antioch University. Those shared roots and an abiding commitment to social, economic, and environmental justice remain at our core. Today's Antioch University is composed of Antioch University New England, Antioch University Midwest, Antioch University Los Angeles, Antioch University Santa Barbara, Antioch University Seattle, Antioch University Online, and the University's Graduate School of Leadership & Change. Collectively, they make up one Antioch University with progressive values and a mission to educate the next generation of those determined to win victories for humanity. View full university