San Diego`s Number One Attraction are its Universities

When you think of San Diego, CA what thoughts pop up in your mind? Perhaps it is SeaWorld amusement park, the San Diego Zoo or the USS Midway Museum and the Cabrillo National Monument for sure. But did premier education come to you mind as well? No, then read on and lean San Diego is home of the University of California, the Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the distinguished Salk Institute for Biological studies.

Yes, we all love the SeaWorld adventure park where we can enjoy the Shamu orca show or go with our kids on a Wild Arctic Ride and touch bottle nose dolphins.  Along a similar vein there is the San Diego Zoo.  For sure you remember the overhead gondola ride “Skyfari”  because its vintage construction together with the thought will it hold? which is still vividly in your mind.

When visiting San Diego, the dads among you would not pass up the chance to visit the USS Midway aircraft carrier – which served the US Navy for an unprecedented 47 years – and is now a museum.  Seize the day tell your kids about US history from World War II over the Vietnam War to the first golf war in 1991 – all events where the USS Midway participated.

One of my favorite history memorials is the Cabrillo National Monument. It commemorates the landing of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo at the San Diego Bay in 1542. This event marked the first time Europeans set foot on the West Coast of what later became the United States.

Given these many San Diego attractions, it probably surprises nobody that San Diego is one of the foremost cities of education. The 2012 National Collegiate Scouting Association’s Power Rankings ranks UC San Diego 1st place among Division II colleges and 9th place overall. Almost 90% of residents received a high school degree and more than 40% of the population received a bachelor’s degree.

San Dieogo is home of ten universities, including University of California at San Diego (UCSD), California State University (CSU), California Western School of Law and Thomas Jefferson School of Law.  Furthermore, there are eight major colleges, such as Grossmont College and Southwestern College.

The Salk Institute located in Dan Diego’s La Jolla seaside quarter is one of the finest biological research institutes in the world.  Faculty like Francis Crick (discoverer of the DNA) or neuroscientist Professor Ramachandran have found a home at the Salk Institute.

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