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UC campuses earn top marks for affordability, quality on The Princeton Review’s 2027 Best Value Colleges list

Eight University of California campuses are among the publication’s 2027 Best Value Colleges and six are among the top 20 for ...
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Undergraduate admissions summary

Systemwide applicant and admit counts are unduplicated. UC Merced opened in 2005 so there is no data prior to 2005 for this campus. Beginning in 2011, Merced invited all California resident referrals ...
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Admissions by source school

These tables present information on UC’s Applicants, Admits, and Enrollees. Freshman applicant counts are presented for fall and transfer counts are presented for the full academic year. Mean high ...
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California high school graduation projections and A-G completion

The University of California opened its doors in 1869 with just 10 faculty members and 40 students. Today, the UC system has more than 300,000 students and 265,000 faculty and staff, with 2.5 million ...
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Academic staffing ratios

The University of California opened its doors in 1869 with just 10 faculty members and 40 students. Today, the UC system has more than 300,000 students and 265,000 faculty and staff, with 2.5 million ...
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3 UC national laboratory scientists and two former postdoctoral fellows win prestigious Ernest Orlando Lawrence Awards from the Department of Energy

Established in 1959, the Lawrence Award is among the longest-running and most prestigious science and technology honors ...
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Federal updates

With numerous, quickly evolving federal policy shifts underway, the University of California is working diligently to monitor these developments and seek clarity on a range of issues. We remain ...
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Why California's beaches are shrinking, and what we can do to save them

Mike Beck has an enviable commute: an eight-mile drive along the coastal bluffs that separate the city of Santa Cruz from the ocean. In his 25 years as a professor of coastal sciences at UC Santa Cruz ...
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UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Omar Yaghi, a Jordanian-American chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry today, sharing it with Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, ...
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Wildfire smoke is worse than you think

Wildfire smoke is a growing health threat, as climate change and overgrown wildlands collide to generate more frequent and intense wildfires. Wildfire smoke is highly toxic. One UC San Diego study ...
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Solar-panel-covered canals have their day in the sun in California

California is taking the first steps in realizing an idea to save billions of gallons of water each year and produce enough clean energy to power a city the size of Los Angeles for nine months ...
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What it means to be a Hispanic-Serving System: A Q&A with UC Vice Provost Yvette Gullatt

The University of California was created to serve the people of the Golden State — and that means reflecting the changing demographics of all those who call California home. Today, almost 40 percent ...