UC Berkeley Most Liberal Colleges in America. 8. The Academic Ranking of World Universities also rated the top 200 universities in five broad academic areas and five subject areas. [142], Students established the Student Environmental Center (SEC) in 2001, have held annual Earth Summits, and established a sustainability funding body, the Campus Sustainability Council. [109][110] Exhibits of Grateful Dead Archive materials are on display in the Brittingham Family Foundation's Dead Central Gallery on the 2nd Floor of McHenry Library. The entrance is located in the forest between the Porter College meadow and Empire Grade Road. [95] In 2011, The Princeton Review and Gamepro Media ranked UC Santa Cruz's graduate programs in Game Design as seventh in the nation. [121][122], Another well known tradition is what is known as "First Rain". American universities dominated the 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities, with UC Berkeley coming in first among public universities, followed closely by UCLA, UC San Diego and UC San Francisco. UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz The entering freshman class had an average high school GPA of 3.57, and the middle 50% range of SAT scores were 590-680 for evidence-base reading and writing, 600-710 for math, while the ACT Composite range was 24–30. The Men's water polo team was ranked 18th in the nation in 2006 and won the D3 national Championship, however in 2009 the team was cut due to budget cuts. [14], Construction started by 1964, and the university was able to accommodate its first students (albeit living in trailers on what is now the East Field athletic area) in 1965. [31] Along with UCI, UC Santa Cruz was the youngest university to gain admittance to the AAU. Apartments are typically shared by four to eight students, have common living/dining rooms, kitchens and bathrooms, and a combination of shared and private bedrooms. All Rights Reserved. UC's mix of academic excellence, research prowess and its commitment to social mobility propel its campuses to the top of many college ranking lists. "[23] The students then tried to award an honorary degree to Huey P. Newton (who was in jail at the time, although he went on to earn his bachelor's and doctorate degrees at Santa Cruz). 2020 Santa Cruz graduate students' strike, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Times Higher Education World University Rankings, List of University of California, Santa Cruz people, University of California, Santa Cruz, Arboretum, "Annual Endowment Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2019", "University of California Annual Financial Report 18/19", "Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup", "Library Guides: UCSC Campus History & Current Affairs : Welcome! 26. , UC Santa Cruz is among the universities where students incur the least amount of debt as they work toward earning a degree. Together, they offer 65 graduate programs, 64 undergraduate majors, and 41 minors.[64]. In another ranking published recently, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), UC Santa Cruz is ranked 93rd among the world's best universities and in the top 50 in the United States. The original 144,000-square-foot (13,400 m2) library reopened on June 22, 2011 after seismic upgrades and other renovations. Learn more about the need for private gifts — and please consider making a gift today. [28] By the fall of 1984, 45% of Santa Cruz students were already majoring in the sciences, and that year, the campus offered computer engineering as a major for the first time (in order to take advantage of its proximity to Silicon Valley), followed by business economics a year later. 1. 9. UC Irvine [27][28][29] In 1981, after a two-year battle, the faculty narrowly voted to give students the option of receiving grades for the first time, in lieu of Santa Cruz's traditional narrative evaluations. The university does not condone the gathering, but has taken steps to regulate the event and ensure security for all participants. The 2007 event attracted a total of 5,000 participants. Most of the UCSC undergraduate housing is affiliated with one of the ten residential colleges. [32], On December 9, 2019, over 200 graduate student-workers initiated a wildcat strike by withholding Fall quarter grades with the following demands: (1) a COLA (cost of living adjustment) of $1,412/month to address the housing crisis in Santa Cruz, (2) a promise of non-retaliation against those participating in the strike, and (3) a cap on tuition for undergraduate students, to ensure that the increase in graduate student-worker pay would not increase the rent-burden and precarity of their students. UCLA UC San Diego Notable alumni of the University of California, Santa Cruz include co-founder of the Black Panther Party Huey P. Newton (BA 1974, PhD 1980); actress and comedian Maya Rudolph (BA 1995); founder of Huffington Post and BuzzFeed Jonah Peretti (BA 1996); filmmaker Cary Fukunaga (BA 1999); marine biologist and MacArthur Fellowship winner Stacy Jupiter (PhD 2006); acclaimed author and cultural theorist bell hooks (PhD 1983); and several Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists.