The University of California, San Diego ranked 62nd in the QS World University Rankings in 2024. There are 27 Nobel Prize winners, 3 Fields Medal winners, 8 National Science Medal winners, 8 MacArthur Prize winners and 2 Pulitzer Prize winners among the UCSD alumni. At present, there are 254 academicians of the Fourth Academy of Sciences in the United States. The school has seven undergraduate general education colleges, five academic research colleges and five professional research colleges, and manages Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Qualcomm Institute and San Diego Supercomputing Center 18. The UniversityofCalifornia, SanDiego (abbreviated as UCSD or UCSanDiego), often translated as the University of California, San Diego, is located in the seaside town of San Diego, a research university, the Pacific Rim University Alliance, the International Forum of Public Universities and association of american universities, and was selected as a member of the British government's "Visa Program for High Potential Talents".