The University of California, Santa Cruz is a public research university and one of 10 campuses in the University of California system. Located 75 miles (120 km) south of San Francisco at the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz. The campus lies on 2,001 acres (810 ha) of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Monterey Bay.
As a modern research university with a wide variety of graduate programs, UC Santa Cruz retains its reputation for strong undergraduate support and student political activism. The residential college system, which consists of ten small colleges, is intended to combine the student support of a small college with the resources of a major university.
THE CITY oF YEAR LONG SPRING
With Spring like weather year round, Santa Cruz is an outdoor lover’s paradise. Even in the rainy season, the temperature variation in Santa Cruz is minimal. It makes this city a real paradise, where locals and visitors can enjoy green & blue landscape year-round with many hiking and biking trails, redwood forests and sand beaches.
UCSC CampUS
UCSC campus stretching over redwood forests and panoramic ocean views offers a unique college experience
Situated in Silicon Valley, the Basking School of Engineering is a hub for high-tech recruiters. UCSC alumni rank as some of the highest paid engineers in the US. A recent Wall Street Journal article placed UCSC engineering graduates within the top 10 highest-paid across all engineering disciplines (ranking), noting that UCSC engineering graduates outearn even those from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
