Back جامعة كاليفورنيا (سانتا كروز) Arabic جامعة كاليفورنيا (سانتا كروز) ARZ کالیفورنیا، سانتا کروز بیلیمیوردو AZB Каліфарнійскі ўніверсітэт у Санта-Крузе Byelorussian Калифорнийски университет, Санта Круз Bulgarian ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, সান্টা ক্রুজ Bengali/Bangla Universitat de Califòrnia a Santa Cruz Catalan زانکۆی کالیفۆرنیا (سانتا کروز) CKB Kalifornská univerzita v Santa Cruz Czech University of California, Santa Cruz German
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| Motto | Fiat lux (Latin) |
|---|---|
Motto in English | "Let there be light" |
| Type | Public land-grant research university |
| Established | 1965[1] |
Parent institution | University of California |
| Accreditation | WSCUC |
Academic affiliations | |
| Endowment | $153.36 million (2023)[2] |
| Chancellor | Cynthia Larive |
| Provost | Lori Kletzer |
| Students | 19,938 (fall 2024)[3] |
| Undergraduates | 17,940 (fall 2024)[3] |
| Postgraduates | 1,998 (fall 2024)[3] |
| Location | , , United States 37°00′N 122°04′W / 37.00°N 122.06°W |
| Campus | Small city[5], 6,088 acres (2,464 ha)[4] |
| Other campuses | |
| Newspaper | City on a Hill Press |
| Colors | Blue and gold[6] |
| Nickname | Banana Slugs |
Sporting affiliations | |
| Mascot | Sammy the Slug[7] |
| Website | ucsc |
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The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located in Monterey Bay, on the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the main campus lies on 2,001 acres (810 ha) of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. As of Fall 2024, its ten residential colleges enroll some 17,940 undergraduate and 1,998 graduate students.[8] Satellite facilities in other Santa Cruz locations include the Coastal Science Campus and the Westside Research Park and the Silicon Valley Center in Santa Clara, along with administrative control of the Lick Observatory near San Jose in the Diablo Range and the Keck Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
Founded in 1965, UC Santa Cruz uses a residential college system consisting of ten small colleges that were established as a variation of the Oxbridge collegiate university system.[9]
Among the faculty are Nobel Prize laureates, Rhodes Scholars, Fulbright Scholars, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences recipients,16 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 29 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 46 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. UC Santa Cruz alumni include 13 Pulitzer Prizes for 11 recipients, 7 MacArthur 'genius' Award fellows, Rhodes Scholars, Fulbright Scholars, and Marshall Scholars, amongst others.[10][11][12] UC Santa Cruz is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[13] The university is also a member of the Association of American Universities.
- ^ "And Now For Some Facts" (PDF). University of California, Santa Cruz. September 2015.
- ^ As of June 30, 2023. "University of California Annual Endowment Report Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2023" (PDF). Office of the President. University of California. November 13, 2023. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ a b c "Campus Enrollments". iraps.ucsc.edu. April 28, 2025.
- ^ "University of California Annual Financial Report 18/19" (PDF). University of California. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 23, 2020. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
- ^ "IPEDS-University of California, Santa Cruz".
- ^ "Colors – Communications & Marketing". Retrieved July 18, 2018.
- ^ "Banana Slug Mascot". Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. Retrieved November 6, 2010.
- ^ "UC Santa Cruz by the Numbers". admissions.ucsc.edu. Retrieved April 28, 2025.
- ^ Kerr, Clark (2001). The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Volume 1. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 273–280. ISBN 9780520223677.
- ^ "Achievements". www.ucsc.edu. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
- ^ Hernandez-Jason, Scott (October 11, 2022). "UC Santa Cruz named 2022 Fulbright HSI Leader". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved September 2, 2024.
- ^ Rappaport, Scott (December 2010). "History graduate heading to Scotland on prestigious Marshall Scholarship". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved September 2, 2024.
- ^ "Carnegie Classifications | Institution Lookup". carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
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