The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a research-oriente public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, California, USA. It is one of ten campuses of the University of California. Its current student body is around 20,000. UCSB ranks as the 35th university worldwide and the 27th in the United States in the 2007 Academic Ranking of World Universities, which measures scientific research leading toward a Nobel Prize.U.S. News & World Report ranks the university as the 44th best in the United States in terms of quality of undergraduate education.