University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara - public university near Goleta, California, United States and part of the University of California system. This university is the 149^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 224^th most popular university in Simple English Wikipedia and the 604^th most popular building in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “University of California, Santa Barbara” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Kazakh Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “University of California, Santa Barbara”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1453 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

University of California, Santa Barbara is on the 224^th place in local ranking of universities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 149^th place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

University of California, Santa Barbara is on the 604^th place in local ranking of buildings in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 554^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 87 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11600 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3984 in September 2012
• Global: #6736 in June 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #17299 in April 2012
• Global: #29859 in May 2014

There are 39 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Kazakh (kk) Калифорния университеті, Санта-Барбара		82.0895
2	English (en) University of California, Santa Barbara		74.9797
3	Chinese (zh) 加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校		65.3018
4	Malay (ms) Universiti California, Santa Barbara		44.5028
5	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア大学サンタバーバラ校		44.3805
6	Armenian (hy) Սանտա Բարբարայի Կալիֆոռնիայի համալսարան		43.667
7	German (de) University of California, Santa Barbara		42.3791
8	Persian (fa) دانشگاه کالیفرنیا، سانتا باربارا		41.3831
9	Bulgarian (bg) Калифорнийски университет, Санта Барбара		38.2616
10	Russian (ru) Калифорнийский университет в Санта-Барбаре		36.7378

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "University of California, Santa Barbara" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) University of California, Santa Barbara		4 651 103
2	Chinese (zh) 加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校		359 305
3	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア大学サンタバーバラ校		284 070
4	German (de) University of California, Santa Barbara		138 640
5	Spanish (es) Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara		95 323
6	French (fr) Université de Californie à Santa Barbara		70 154
7	Korean (ko) 캘리포니아 대학교 샌타바버라		59 858
8	Russian (ru) Калифорнийский университет в Санта-Барбаре		54 855
9	Persian (fa) دانشگاه کالیفرنیا، سانتا باربارا		44 952
10	Italian (it) Università della California - Santa Barbara		42 263

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "University of California, Santa Barbara" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) University of California, Santa Barbara		14 216
2	Chinese (zh) 加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校		1 854
3	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア大学サンタバーバラ校		723
4	Spanish (es) Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara		360
5	German (de) University of California, Santa Barbara		283
6	Russian (ru) Калифорнийский университет в Санта-Барбаре		229
7	French (fr) Université de Californie à Santa Barbara		224
8	Indonesian (id) Universitas California, Santa Barbara		179
9	Italian (it) Università della California - Santa Barbara		155
10	Korean (ko) 캘리포니아 대학교 샌타바버라		116

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "University of California, Santa Barbara" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) University of California, Santa Barbara		785
2	German (de) University of California, Santa Barbara		90
3	French (fr) Université de Californie à Santa Barbara		70
4	Chinese (zh) 加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校		66
5	Italian (it) Università della California - Santa Barbara		42
6	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア大学サンタバーバラ校		37
7	Spanish (es) Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara		31
8	Korean (ko) 캘리포니아 대학교 샌타바버라		30
9	Russian (ru) Калифорнийский университет в Санта-Барбаре		25
10	Hindi (hi) कैलिफोर्निया विश्वविद्यालय, सांता बारबरा		23

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "University of California, Santa Barbara" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) University of California, Santa Barbara		3
2	Finnish (fi) Kalifornian yliopisto (Santa Barbara)		1
3	Urdu (ur) یونیورسٹی آف کیلیفورنیا، سانتا باربرا		1
4	Chinese (zh) 加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校		1
5	Arabic (ar) جامعة كاليفورنيا (سانتا باربرا)		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Santa-Barbara Kaliforniya Universiteti		0
7	Belarusian (be) Каліфарнійскі ўніверсітэт у Санта-Барбары		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Калифорнийски университет, Санта Барбара		0
9	Catalan (ca) Universitat de Califòrnia a Santa Barbara		0
10	Czech (cs) Kalifornská univerzita v Santa Barbaře		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "University of California, Santa Barbara" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) University of California, Santa Barbara		4 748
2	German (de) University of California, Santa Barbara		891
3	Chinese (zh) 加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校		626
4	Arabic (ar) جامعة كاليفورنيا (سانتا باربرا)		512
5	French (fr) Université de Californie à Santa Barbara		508
6	Spanish (es) Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara		424
7	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア大学サンタバーバラ校		419
8	Russian (ru) Калифорнийский университет в Санта-Барбаре		412
9	Italian (it) Università della California - Santa Barbara		346
10	Persian (fa) دانشگاه کالیفرنیا، سانتا باربارا		322

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic جامعة كاليفورنيا (سانتا باربرا)
az	Azerbaijani Santa-Barbara Kaliforniya Universiteti
be	Belarusian Каліфарнійскі ўніверсітэт у Санта-Барбары
bg	Bulgarian Калифорнийски университет, Санта Барбара
ca	Catalan Universitat de Califòrnia a Santa Barbara
cs	Czech Kalifornská univerzita v Santa Barbaře
da	Danish University of California, Santa Barbara
de	German University of California, Santa Barbara
el	Greek Πανεπιστήμιο της Καλιφόρνια (Σάντα Μπάρμπαρα)
en	English University of California, Santa Barbara
eo	Esperanto Universitato de Kalifornio en Santa Barbara
es	Spanish Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara
et	Estonian California Ülikool Santa Barbaras
fa	Persian دانشگاه کالیفرنیا، سانتا باربارا
fi	Finnish Kalifornian yliopisto (Santa Barbara)
fr	French Université de Californie à Santa Barbara
he	Hebrew אוניברסיטת קליפורניה בסנטה ברברה
hi	Hindi कैलिफोर्निया विश्वविद्यालय, सांता बारबरा
hy	Armenian Սանտա Բարբարայի Կալիֆոռնիայի համալսարան
id	Indonesian Universitas California, Santa Barbara
it	Italian Università della California - Santa Barbara
ja	Japanese カリフォルニア大学サンタバーバラ校
kk	Kazakh Калифорния университеті, Санта-Барбара
ko	Korean 캘리포니아 대학교 샌타바버라
la	Latin Universitas Californiensis Barbaropolitana
ms	Malay Universiti California, Santa Barbara
nl	Dutch Universiteit van Californië - Santa Barbara
no	Norwegian University of California, Santa Barbara
pl	Polish Uniwersytet Kalifornijski w Santa Barbara
pt	Portuguese Universidade da Califórnia em Santa Bárbara
ru	Russian Калифорнийский университет в Санта-Барбаре
sh	Serbo-Croatian Univerzitet u Kaliforniji, Santa Barbara
simple	Simple English University of California, Santa Barbara
sr	Serbian Универзитет Калифорније (Санта Барбара)
sv	Swedish University of California, Santa Barbara
uk	Ukrainian Університет Каліфорнії у Санта-Барбарі
ur	Urdu یونیورسٹی آف کیلیفورنیا، سانتا باربرا
vi	Vietnamese Đại học California tại Santa Barbara
zh	Chinese 加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校

Best Rank

Simple English: #17299 04.2012

Global: #29859 05.2014

Best Rank

Simple English: #3984 09.2012

Global: #6736 06.2014

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