1. Year Founded: 1965
2. Sponsorship and Control: Public
3. Degree Levels Offered: Master's, Professional Certificate, Bachelor's, Doctorate
4. Calendar Plan: Quarters
5. Current Enrollment:
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10. Library: McHenry and Science Libraries
UCSC is located on 2,000 acres of redwood forest and open meadowland which once formed part of the historic Cowell cattle ranch, limekilns, and quarry. The site, purchased by UC in 1961, is set in the hills above the city of Santa Cruz, overlooking Monterey Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
There are approximately 102 acres within the central campus area, which is circumscribed by a loop road system. This core is the focus of centralized instructional resources and research space, including classrooms, laboratories and studios, two libraries, and academic support and general administration facilities. In an arc around this core are located the undergraduate colleges, student residential facilities, and physical education and recreation facilities. Colleges, which include classrooms and faculty offices in addition to residential spaces, divide the larger university campus into smaller communities, each serving as the social and intellectual gathering place for between 900 and 1,300 students. Administrative offices for the humanities and the arts are also located in the colleges.
The campus has two major off-site research facilities. Long Marine Lab, an onshore site three miles from campus, is one of the facilities supporting the Institute for Marine Sciences. Lick Observatory, located on Mt. Hamilton east of San Jose, serves the University of California Observatories, a multi-campus research facility. In addition, the campus manages three off-campus natural reserves for research and teaching: Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve (4,000 acres) on the Big Sur coast, Año Nuevo Island (25 acres) twenty miles north of Santa Cruz, and Younger Lagoon and beach (20 acres) next to the Long Marine Lab.
The campus's facilities have a book value of $448,596,810 and total 2,275,990 assignable square feet (asf). Of this, 48,904 asf is classroom space, 367,675 asf is laboratory or studio space, 159,270 asf is library space, 85,848 asf is faculty office space, 59,211 asf is recreational space (excluding outdoor playing fields), and 1,133,197 asf is residential space.
Eighty percent of the fall 1992 students came from public high schools and twenty percent came from private high schools; 94 percent of these freshmen were in the top 10 percent of their high school class. Home regions of undergraduates were as follows: 25.6 percent from the Los Angeles area/south coast, 24.5 percent from the San Francisco Bay area, 2.3 percent from the Monterey Bay/Santa Clara Valley, 8.9 percent from the Central Valley, 7.2 percent from the San Diego area, and 2.4 percent from other northern California areas. In addition, 8.5 percent were from out of state and 0.6 percent were from foreign countries.
The ethnic composition of the undergraduate student body is 68.1 percent Caucasian, 8.8 percent Asian, 9.0 percent Chicano, 4.0 percent other Hispanic, 3.4 percent Filipino, 2.9 percent African American, 1.4 percent American Indian, and 2.4 percent from other minorities; the ethnic composition of the graduate student body is 69.2 percent Caucasian, 11.8 percent Asian, 7.2 percent Chicano, 4.3 percent other Hispanic, 3.4 percent African American, 0.9 percent Filipino, 0.8 percent American Indian, and 2.4 percent from other minorities.
During the past three years (1990-91 through 1992-93), an average of 2,172 undergraduate (1,871, 2,283, and 2,363, respectively) and 257 graduate degrees (230, 252, 290, respectively) were awarded. As of 1992, the campus had awarded 30,299 bachelor's degrees, 1,651 master's degrees and graduate certificates, and 941 doctoral degrees.