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James Steintrager. Chair of the Academic Senate. The University of California opened its doors in 1869 with just 10 faculty members and 40 students. Today, the UC system has more than 280,000 students and 227,000 faculty and staff, with 2.0 million alumni living and working around the world.
10 campuses. You’ve likely heard of our campuses before — each one of them ranks among the best in the world. From UC Davis to UC San Diego, nine of our campuses house undergraduate and graduate education. UC San Francisco focuses on health education and it only offers graduate degrees.
Get started on the University of California's undergraduate application and find everything you need to know about applying to our nine world-class campuses.
UC Berkeley pushes the boundaries of knowledge, challenges convention and expands opportunity to create the leaders of tomorrow.
The University of California was founded in 1868, born out of a vision in the State Constitution of a university that would “contribute even more than California’s gold to the glory and happiness of advancing generations.”
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868 and named after Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system.
Apply now. UC is for people like you. And people not like you. There’s no such thing as a typical UC student. That’s a big part of what makes UC special. Students come here from all over the world, but they come for one reason: to take on the amazing opportunities that UC offers.
