OCS provides an adult learning environment where serious and highly motivated students are taught by faculty who are among the most respected scholars in the nation.
Faculty teach either in person or interactively via television.
Classes in Ventura have maximum enrollments of 45 students, allowing them the opportunity to develop close dialogue with faculty and working relationships with fellow students. OCS, established in 1972, is the first program of its kind throughout the nine-campus University of California system. UCSB is one of the two top public research universities in the nation. In addition, UCSB ranks with Stanford, USC, Yale, and Harvard as a member of the prestigious American Association of Universities. This is official University of California, Santa Barbara information.