Guide
Which campuses count as the University of California
This page lists the ten University of California campuses in the Scorecard, including UCSF. It is a hand roster. A name search would make mistakes. UC College of the Law is a separate institution and is not one of the ten. The table is alphabetical.
UCSF is a health-sciences campus. Its predominant credential is graduate, and it may report no undergraduate enrollment. That blank is not a broken row. The other campuses are the undergraduate universities readers expect, from Berkeley and UCLA to Merced.
- Schools
- 10
- States
- 1
- California
- Median admit rate
- 33%
- 9 report a rate
- Median earnings
- $80,735
- 10 years after entry
Ten campuses
The roster is Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. Each slug was matched to the Scorecard record for that campus. A similarly named college in California does not join.
Berkeley is also the California row on the flagship page. Irvine carries the Hispanic-serving flag. Those extra lists are other rules. They do not add or remove a UC campus here.
The law college and the Cal State system
UC College of the Law, San Francisco, has its own Scorecard record and is not in this roster. It was formerly Hastings. Leaving it off is deliberate. The ten-campus system and the law college are not the same list.
Cal State campuses are a different public system. Cal State Fullerton, San Diego State, and the Cal Poly campuses have their own page. They are not branch campuses of the University of California. A student does not apply to one combined California list.
One system, different campuses
Alphabetical order treats Merced and Los Angeles as members of the same system, which they are. It does not pretend they are the same size. The enrollment section names the largest undergraduate bodies so the range is visible.
In-state sticker price is the public tuition figure. The UC campuses share a system and do not share one student experience. Admission rates differ. Read them as campus facts. The system label does not set a single rate.
Why UCSF stays
Dropping UCSF would make a tidier undergraduate table and a worse description of the system. The university counts it as a campus. This roster counts it too, and the guide says the undergraduate figure can be blank so the row is not mistaken for an error.
Orange County readers often want Irvine alone. Irvine is on this page and on the Orange County page. Use the county page when the question is place. Use this page when the question is the system.
Where the schools are
Every school on this list is in California. A campus in another state stays off, even when the system or the brand reaches further.
Who runs them
Every school with a reported control is public. Control is the Scorecard field. It is not a judgment about quality.
Predominant degree is the credential the campus awards most often. On this list it is a bachelor's degree at 9 schools and a graduate degree at 1 school. A campus can still award other credentials.
How large they are
The largest undergraduate enrollments on this list are University of California-San Diego in La Jolla, California, with 34,948 undergraduates, University of California-Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, with 33,475 undergraduates, and University of California-Berkeley in Berkeley, California, with 33,068 undergraduates. Enrollment is the undergraduate figure. It is not a ranking, and it leaves out graduate students.
1 school does not report an undergraduate enrollment. That campus stays off the size order. A blank is not zero.
Admission
9 of 10 schools report an admission rate. The median of those rates is 33%. Schools with no reported rate stay out of the median. A missing rate is not an open door, and it is not a closed one.
The lowest reported admission rates on this list are University of California-Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, at 9%, University of California-Berkeley in Berkeley, California, at 11%, and University of California-San Diego in La Jolla, California, at 27%. A lower rate is harder entry. It is not a score for the school.
The highest reported admission rates on this list are University of California-Merced in Merced, California, at 91%, University of California-Riverside in Riverside, California, at 76%, and University of California-Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California, at 66%.
What they charge
Among 9 public colleges that report an in-state sticker price, the median is $16,005. 1 other public colleges on the list do not report one.
Sticker price is not net price. Grants, waivers, and a service commitment can move the bill by a wide margin. Open a school for the net-price figures.
Earnings and graduation
Among 9 schools that report earnings, the median of those school-level medians is $80,735. The clock starts at entry, not at graduation. The highest reported medians on this list are University of California-Berkeley in Berkeley, California, at $92,446, University of California-San Diego in La Jolla, California, at $84,943, and University of California-Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, at $82,511.
Among 9 schools that report a graduation rate, the median rate is 86%. A blank rate is left out. It is not treated as zero.
Athletics in this file
7 report NCAA Division I athletics, 2 play FBS football, and 1 plays FCS football. A blank athletics field means this file has no division for that campus. It does not prove the campus has no team.
Also on other lists
Some of these schools also meet the rule for another list on this site. The overlap is a second flag or a second classification. It is not a second ranking.
8 are also on R1 research universities. 1 is also on R2 research universities. 8 are also on Hispanic-serving institutions.
How these figures work
Admission rate, enrollment, sticker price, earnings, and graduation rate all come from the College Scorecard. Earnings are the median 10 years after a student entered the school. Tuition for a public college is the in-state sticker price. Tuition for a private college is the published sticker price. None of these is net price after aid.
A blank field stays blank. This page does not turn a blank admission rate into an open door, a blank fee into a free application, or a blank earnings figure into zero. The table above is membership under the rule in this guide. Sort order is not a quality ranking.