Why is UC Santa Barbara growing?
UC Santa Barbara is one of the most popular campuses in the University of California system, with applications doubling in the past decade. However, in keeping with the limits agreed to under the last LRDP, on-campus enrollment has been capped at 20,000 for several years. We are proposing to meet increased demand in a managed way, maintaining a one percent annual enrollment increase of 250 students per year to carry us to the year 2025 and a maximum of 25,000 students. UC Santa Barbara’s annual growth mirrors that of the entire Santa Barbara County region (about one percent per year). Due to the campus’s location in the Coastal Zone, it is subject to jurisdiction of the California Coastal Commission . The proposed enrollment increase is needed to achieve two important objectives: accommodation of UC Santa Barbara’s fair share of the increased enrollment demand in UC and continued rise in the academic excellence of the Santa Barbara campus. We are especially mindful of the need to provi
