Interesting list. For ease:
Dune (Frank Herbert) - read it
Ender’s Game (Ender Quartet) (Orson Scott Card) - read it
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein) - read it
Foundation (Foundation Series) (Issac Asimov) - read it
The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Author C. Clarke) - saw the movie (?)
Hyperion Cantos (Dan Simmons)
Neuromancer (William Gibson) - read it
1984 (George Orwell) - read it
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy (Douglas Adams) - read it
Ubik (Philip K. Dick) - why Ubik? The description doesn't even talk about Ubik. It talks about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
The Forever War (Joe Haldman) - read it
Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) - read it
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought) (Vernor Vinge)
Old Man's War (Cold Fire Trilogy) (John Scalzi) - read it
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs Novels) (Richard Morgan)
Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe)
Player of Games (Culture) (Ian M. Banks)
The Night's Dawn (Peter F. Hamilton)
Gateway (HeeChee Saga) ( Frederick Pohl)
Spin (Robert Charles Wilson)
The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi)
Anathem (Neal Stephenson)
Blindsight (Peter Watts)
Miles Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold)
So, quite a few I've read, quite a few I haven't. Of the ones I've read, I agree that they're pretty damned good, though there are others I enjoyed that aren't on this list. Also, some of these aren't really Sci fi, like Neuromancer and Snow Crash. Those are more cyberpunk.
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You also have to imagine I was a slacker so I was trying to get out of any 'mandatory' reading as much as possible. In a way my university career was not so much about gaining knowledge but about how I could get a degree without doing much at all and relying solely on my wits. It worked, but it turned out to have been a terrible decision. 
