Data

September 6, 2024

UCSB awards majority A grades for fifth consecutive school year

By Siddharth Chattoraj

From Summer 2023 through Spring 2024, 58.82% of course letter grades awarded were A grades.

July 26, 2024

Decoding academic choices: Exploring popular double majors and minors at UCSB

By Kacey Ly, Kyle Wu, Alexandra Chan

At UC Santa Barbara there are 90 majors and 40 minors offered. For some students, their higher education experience can include the exploration of an additional major or minor. 

June 2, 2024

From campus to capital: Insights into UCSB’s Investment Advisory Committee

By Kyle Wu, Siddharth Chattoraj, Lance Sanchez, Bowie Chuang, Winston Zuo

The IAC manages an active portfolio worth over $200,000. The best-performing stock the IAC holds is NVIDIA with an unrealized return percentage of 37,744.43% and a realized percentage of 1,399.84%.

June 2, 2024

Where’s our tuition going? A deep dive into A.S. budget allocation and student services

By Bowie Chuang, Anna Li, Valeria Lopez

UCSB's undergraduates pay $237.29 in fees to Associated Students every quarter, and they are primarily used to fund A.S. departments, student organizations and student services.

May 23, 2024

Disruption and dialogue: Quantifying the effects of the UC school system strikes

By Winston Zuo, Kyle Wu, Calais Waring, Megan Dhillon

The nearly six-week strike by UC graduate student workers led to substantial wage increases while maintaining the number of teaching assistant-led classes.

May 16, 2024

UCSB academic departments have seen growth in undergraduate degrees conferred in recent years

By Annaka Lee, Nixon Tse

Communication, psychological & brain sciences, economics, biological sciences, statistics and data science and physics are among the top growing majors from 2013-14 to 2022-23.

May 3, 2024

The realities of the job market post-graduation: Insights from UCSB alumni

By Alexandra Chan, Kacey Ly, Donghyun Cha, Benjamin Monastyrsky

Advisors and alumni from UCSB shared their advice for navigating the current job market.

April 25, 2024

Munching metrics: Mapping retail dining nutrition at UCSB

By Dinesh Rustagi, Katy Tseng, Kyle Wu, Lance Sanchez

The Nexus analyzed the top-10 most calorie-dense menu options at four retail dining restaurants located on the UCSB campus.

April 11, 2024

Unveiling the climate crisis in Santa Barbara

By Kacie Chong

Santa Barbara has warmed by 2.3 degrees Celsius since 1895.. Efforts to reduce emissions saw an increase by 14% despite the City Council's goal of carbon neutrality by 2035.

April 10, 2024

Deltopia in full-throttle with record-level citations, massive crowds

By Lizzy Rager

The 13th annual unsanctioned street festival saw over 20,000 attendees, record-level citations and overwhelmed medical emergency services by early Saturday morning.

February 23, 2024

Food insecurity amongst UCSB students

By Karen Yuan, Olivia Davis, Jinglin Yang

The Associated Students (A.S.) Food Bank and the Food Security and Basic Needs Advising Center at UCSB are working to reduce food insecurity.

February 16, 2024

Navigating the bike-friendly campus: challenges and solutions at UCSB

By Ju Kim, Justin Zhou, Valeria Lopez

The proportion of students biking to campus has decreased over the past decade. while the proportion of those walking increased.

February 9, 2024

Play like a Gaucho: UCSB women athletes celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day

By Michelle Tekawy, Katy Tseng

Feb. 7, 2024 marked the 38th annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day. As of the 2023-2024 school year, 184 women athletes represent UCSB in the Big West and Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

February 8, 2024

Learning and Large Language Models: Charting ChatGPT’s changes to curriculum

By Calais Waring, Megan Dhillon, Keya Panchal

ChatGPT has been utilized at UC Santa Barbara for over a year, influencing teaching methods and academic curricula with its advanced text processing and generation abilities.

February 2, 2024

UCSB’s lodging labyrinth: The hunt for housing in Isla Vista

By Alexandra Chan, Kyle Wu, Winston Zuo, Benjamin Monastyrsky

As UC Santa Barbara’s winter quarter reaches the halfway mark, students enter a housing market characterized by rising rent prices, limited unit availability and intense competition. 

January 18, 2024

From checkups to coverage: Understanding UCSB’s healthcare landscape

By Kyle Wu, Kacie Chong

UCSB’s Student Health Service logged a total of 49,197 student visits between Fall 2022 and Spring 2023, and a majority of the students who visited were covered under UC SHIP.