[Animats]

Amazingly enough, UCSB has a strong physics department. Shuji Nakamura there just won the Nobel Prize for inventing the blue LED.

UCSB does look like the Hollywood version of college. It's right on the ocean, there's an on campus surfing beach, and the students are very fit.

[brandonl222]

You forgot its top party school status... UCSB was an all around awesome college experience.

[ebildsten]

UCSB has 3 Physics Nobel prizes, and 6 total laureates

http://www.ucsb.edu/nobel/

[nether]

Definitely one of the lesser Nobels though, given that it was awarded for an achievement in engineering, not physics.

[DaniFong]

Wouldn't that argue in favor of the magnitude of the achievement?