2025 Highlights at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

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As we dive into a new quarter and a new year, we're taking a moment to reflect on some of our 2025 highlights at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

In 2025, here at the Jacobs School of Engineering:

• We ranked Top 10 (yet again!).
• We launched an artificial intelligence (AI) undergraduate major.
• We doubled our bioengineering instructional lab capacity.
• We strengthened efforts to make fusion energy a practical reality across the region, the state, and the nation.
• We celebrated generosity bringing attention to the importance of entrepreneurship.

The Jacobs School also contributed 2,800 computer scientists and engineers to the innovation workforce and welcomed new faculty (view PDF).

Through education, research and entrepreneurship, we power emerging industries. Our strategic research areas, which link all six of our academic departments, include fusion engineering, healthcare engineering, future biomanufacturing, artifical intelligence, and new approaches to advanced semiconductors.

Our research drives real-world impact, and in 2025 led to safer and more resilient buildings in the face of earthquakes and fires; a deeper understanding of what's driving a colorectal cancer epidemic; more secure satellite communications (see media coverage in Wired); stronger capacity to prepare, respond and recover from natural disasters, and so much more. (Check out our Jacobs School 2025 news feed here.)

Thank you to everyone inside and outside the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering for your excellence, hard work and generosity! This video is just a taste of what we are accomplishing together. In 2026, we are already building on this momentum in order to advance engineering and computer science to improve lives, strengthen the economy, and drive national security and global competetiveness.

At the Jacobs School of Engineering, we make bold possible.