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University of California

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Also called UC or UC System

Snippet from Wikipedia: University of California: The University of California (UC) is California's system of public research universities. Headquartered in Oakland, the system is composed of ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. The system is the state's land-grant university. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-system public postsecondary education plan, which also includes the California Community Colleges and California State University systems.
The ten campuses have a combined enrollment of 299,407 students, with 26,100 faculty members and 192,400 staff members, and more than 2.5 million alumni. Nine campuses enroll undergraduate and graduate students, while UC San Francisco enrolls only graduate and professional students in the medical and health sciences. The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco is legally affiliated with the University of California and shares its name, but operates autonomously.
The University of California manages or co-manages three national laboratories for the United States Department of Energy: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The university is governed by a Board of Regents, whose autonomy from the rest of the state government is protected by the Constitution of California.
The University of California was founded on March 23, 1868, in Oakland after acquiring the assets of the College of California. It moved to Berkeley in 1873. The university also affiliated with independent medical and law schools in San Francisco. Over the following decades, it established branch locations and satellite programs elsewhere in the state, while Berkeley remained its only campus.
Beginning in March 1951, the University of California began reorganizing its administration to separate the Berkeley campus from the university-wide administration. UC president Robert Gordon Sproul remained the system's chief executive, while Clark Kerr became Berkeley's first chancellor and Raymond B. Allen became the first chancellor of an independently administered University of California, Los Angeles. However, the reorganization faced resistance from Sproul and his allies and was not completed during his presidency. After Kerr succeeded Sproul as UC president, the university was reorganized as a multicampus system between 1957 and 1960. Chancellors were appointed at additional campuses, and the campuses received greater administrative autonomy.
Eight of the campuses are considered Public Ivies, making California the state with the most universities in the nation to hold the title. UC campuses have large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every academic discipline, with UC faculty and researchers having won 75 Nobel Prizes as of 2025.

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