Description Dude, let's hit the beach! And then we'll hit the books at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), which is located about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, where the Santa Ynez Mountains meet the Pacific Ocean. The coastal campus sits on nearly 1,000 acres, and is home to some 21,000 students and 1,000 faculty members. UCSB has five schools and a graduate division, offering more than 200 majors, degrees, and credentials. The school was established in 1909 as the Santa Barbara State Normal School of Manual Arts and Home Economics and joined the University of California system in 1944. Its faculty includes five Nobel Prize winners.
UC Santa Barbara has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,085 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The UC Santa Barbara employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 84% of employees would recommend working at UC Santa Barbara to a friend. This is based on 2,112 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
83% of job seekers rate their interview experience at UC Santa Barbara as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at UC Santa Barbara.