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University of California, Santa Barbara College of Letters and Science

Liberal arts colleges at universities in the United StatesUniversity of California, Santa Barbara colleges and schoolsUniversity subdivisions in California

The College of Letters and Science is the largest college at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The College, which offers 90 majors and 38 minors to over 20,000 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students, has about 700 faculty members.

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