University of California, Davis

For more than 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital and near the San Francisco Bay Area, UC Davis has 32,000 students, an annual research budget that exceeds $684 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 specialized research centers. UC Davis is a leader in sustainability-related research, technological innovation and practice. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and more than 100 undergraduate majors in four colleges Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science and advanced degrees from six professional schools Education, Law, Management, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.

The University of California, Davis, is regarded, domestically and internationally, as a pre-eminent leader of higher education that is driven by our land-grant heritage to provide educational affordability and access to excellence. UC Davis is known for its diverse educational opportunities, its innovative, interdisciplinary research endeavors, and its distinction in leading enterprises that support social responsibility and a sustainable global environment. The central purpose of UC Davis, as a comprehensive research university, is the generation, advancement, dissemination and application of knowledge. In this, UC Davis is committed to developing and sustaining leading programs in The arts, humanities, biological and physical sciences and social sciences Agricultural and environmental disciplines and engineering. Professional studies in education, law, management, medicine, nursing, and veterinary medicine. In these programs, the campus integrates three purposes: teaching students as a partnership between faculty mentors and young scholars; advancing knowledge through pioneering research and scholarship; and applying that knowledge to address the needs of the region, state, nation and globe. UC Davis is committed to the tradition of the land-grant university, the basis of its founding. This tradition built on the premise that the broad purpose of a university is service to people and society guides today the campus special commitments and emphases.

Foundation year: 1959
Short name: UC Davis
Type: Public
Students: 37850
Faculty: 2810
Faculty/Students Ratio: 13:1
Region: North America
Location: Davis, CA