The University of California Thread

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

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MORE SANTA BARBARA

Art Museum


Biology II


Cheadle Hall


Davidson Library


Ellison Hall



Engineering II



Humanities & Social Sciences



Kohn Hall



Marine Biotechnology Laboratory



Music


Phelps Hall


Physical Sciences North



Rec Center




South Hall



Storke Tower



Student Affairs & Administrative Services


University Center

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Brief info on UC Santa Barbara

Size

* Degree-seeking undergrads: 18,114
* First-time degree-seeking freshmen: 3,895
* Graduate enrollment: 2,905

* 59% Women
* 41% Men

* 1% American Indian/Alaskan Native
* 18% Asian/Pacific Islander
* 3% Black/Non-Hispanic
* 20% Hispanic
* 50% White/Non-Hispanic
* 1% Non-Resident Alien
* 8% Race/ethnicity unreported

* Mascot: Gauchos

* Percent applicants admitted: 53%

Most Popular Majors
For Bachelor's Degrees

* Social Sciences: 22%
* Business/Marketing: 11%
* Interdisciplinary Studies: 9%
* Visual and Performing Arts: 9%
* Biology: 7%
* Psychology: 7%
* Communications/Journalism: 5%
* English: 5%
* Law: 5%

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B = Bachelor's degree

Area, Ethnic, Cultural, & Gender Studies

* African-American Studies B
* Asian Studies B
* Hispanic-American Studies B
* Latin American Studies B
* Women's Studies B

Arts, Visual & Performing

* Art - General B
* Art History/Criticism/Conservation B
* Arts - General B
* Dance B
* Drama/Theater Arts B
* Film Production/Cinematography B
* Film Studies B
* Fine/Studio Arts B
* Music - General B

Biological & Biomedical Sciences

* Aquatic Biology/Limnology B
* Bacteriology B
* Biochemistry B
* Biology B
* Cellular Biology/Histology B
* Ecology B
* Marine/Aquatic Biology B
* Molecular Biology B
* Pharmacology B
* Zoology B

Business, Management, & Marketing

* Business/Managerial Economics B

Communications & Journalism

* Communications/Rhetoric B

Computer & Information Sciences

* Computer/Information Sciences - General B

Engineering

* Chemical Engineering B
* Electrical/Communications Engineering B
* Engineering - General B
* Mechanical Engineering B

English Language & Literature

* English B

Foreign Language & Literature

* Chinese B
* Classics B
* Comparative Literature B
* French B
* German B
* Italian B
* Japanese B
* Linguistics B
* Portuguese B
* Russian B
* Slavic B
* Spanish B

Health Professions & Clinical Sciences

* Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology B

History

* History - General B

Liberal Arts & Sciences

* Liberal Arts & Sciences B

Mathematics

* Applied Mathematics B
* Mathematics - General B
* Statistics B

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

* Biological/Physical Sciences B
* Biopsychology B
* Global Studies B
* Medieval/Renaissance Studies B

Natural Resources & Conservation

* Environmental Studies B
* Natural Resources & Conservation - General B

Philosophy & Religion

* Philosophy B
* Religion/Religious Studies B

Physical Sciences

* Chemistry B
* Geology B
* GeophysicsSeismology B
* Physics B

Psychology

* Psychology - General B

Social Sciences

* Anthropology B
* Economics B
* Geography B
* Political Science/Government B
* Sociology B

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by 612bv3

UC Davis has the space to expand to a full service university UCSF doesn't. It would be interesting to see what it would be like to have UCSF as a full university, but unless we make space for one, it's not going to happen.

What if the 49ers, as they renew their efforts for a new stadium, were to try to include a full service UCSF campus as part of their pitch:

in other words; stadium, shopping complex, and UCSF, at Candlestick Point, perhaps extending into Hunters Point? Wouldn't that do wonders to one of the most economically depressed portions of SF. Wouldn't that be a great counterpart to SF State & Parkmerced and Stonestown cross town?

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49ers wouldn't do that. It would probably include residential buildings not a university. Plus UCSF just expanded in Mission Bay.

[612bv3]

Originally Posted by edsg25

What if the 49ers, as they renew their efforts for a new stadium, were to try to include a full service UCSF campus as part of their pitch:

in other words; stadium, shopping complex, and UCSF, at Candlestick Point, perhaps extending into Hunters Point? Wouldn't that do wonders to one of the most economically depressed portions of SF. Wouldn't that be a great counterpart to SF State & Parkmerced and Stonestown cross town?

Since you mentioned SF State, UCLA and UCSB were part of the state college system before becoming a UC. That could be one way.

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

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MORE LOS ANGELES

Ackerman Student Union


Anderson Complex




Ashe Center & Wooden Center


Bradley International Hall


Bruin Bear


Bunche Hall


Hannah Carter Japanese Garden



Center for Health Sciences


De Neve Plaza


Dickson Art Center


Dickson Plaza


Dodd Hall



Facilities Management Building--Chiller/Co-gen Plant


Fowler Museum



Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience & Genetics Research Center



Haines Hall



Humanities Building



Inverted Fountain


Janss Steps




Kaufman Hall


Kerckhoff Hall




MacDonald Medical Research Laboratories


Molecular Sciences Building


Moore Hall



Murphy Sculpture Garden


Pauley Pavilion


Powell Library








Royce Hall








School of Law


Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Fountain


Jules Stein Eye Institute



Student Activities Center



James West Alumni Center


Young Research Library

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Brief info on UC Los Angeles

Size

* Degree-seeking undergrads: 24,946
* First-time degree-seeking freshmen: 3,724
* Graduate enrollment: 10,771

* 58% Women
* 42% Men

* <1% American Indian/Alaskan Native
* 40% Asian/Pacific Islander
* 3% Black/Non-Hispanic
* 14% Hispanic
* 35% White/Non-Hispanic
* 3% Non-Resident Alien
* 4% Race/ethnicity unreported

* 97% in top 10th of graduating class
* 100% in top quarter of graduating class
* 100% in top half of graduating class

* 99% had h.s. GPA of 3.0 and higher
* 1% had h.s. GPA of 2.0 - 2.99

* Mascot: Bruins

* Percent applicants admitted: 23%
* Percent of students who had H.S. GPA of 3.0 or higher: 99%

Most Popular Majors
For Bachelor's Degrees

* Social Sciences: 32%
* Psychology: 13%
* Biology: 11%
* Engineering: 8%
* English: 6%
* Visual and Performing Arts: 6%
* Interdisciplinary Studies: 5%

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B = Bachelor's degree

Area, Ethnic, Cultural, & Gender Studies

* African-American Studies B
* Asian American Studies B
* Asian Studies B
* East Asian Studies B
* European Studies B
* Hispanic-American Studies B
* Latin American Studies B
* Native American Studies B
* Near/Middle Eastern Studies B
* Russian/Slavic Area Studies B
* Southeast Asian Studies B
* Women's Studies B

Arts, Visual & Performing

* Art - General B
* Art History/Criticism/Conservation B
* Design/Visual Communications B
* Drama/Theater Arts B
* Film Studies B
* Music - General B
* Music History/Literature B
* Musicology/Ethnomusicology B

Biological & Biomedical Sciences

* Bacteriology B
* Biochemistry B
* Biology B
* Biophysics B
* Biotechnology B
* Botany B
* Cellular/Molecular Biology B
* Ecology B
* Evolutionary Biology B
* Marine/Aquatic Biology B
* Molecular Biochemistry B
* Molecular Genetics B
* Physiology B

Business, Management, & Marketing

* Business/Managerial Economics B

Computer & Information Sciences

* Computer/Information Sciences - General B

Engineering

* Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering B
* Agricultural Engineering B
* Chemical Engineering B
* Civil Engineering B
* Computer Engineering - General B
* Electrical/Communications Engineering B
* Geological Engineering B
* Manufacturing Engineering B
* Materials Engineering B
* Mechanical Engineering B

English Language & Literature

* American Literature B
* English B
* English Language & Literature - General B

Foreign Language & Literature

* African B
* Arabic B
* Chinese B
* Comparative Literature B
* East Asian B
* French B
* German B
* Greek, Ancient B
* Hebrew B
* Italian B
* Japanese B
* Korean B
* Latin B
* Linguistics B
* Portuguese B
* Russian B
* Scandinavian B
* Slavic B
* Spanish B

Health Professions & Clinical Sciences

* Nursing Science B

History

* History - General B

Liberal Arts & Sciences

* Liberal Arts & Sciences B

Mathematics

* Applied Mathematics B
* Computational Mathematics B
* Mathematics - General B
* Statistics B

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

* Classical/Ancient Mediterranean/Near Eastern Studies B
* Cognitive Science B
* Global Studies B
* Neuroscience B

Philosophy & Religion

* Jewish/Judaic Studies B
* Philosophy B
* Religion/Religious Studies B

Physical Sciences

* Astrophysics B
* Atmospheric Sciences B
* Chemistry B
* Geochemistry B
* Geology B
* GeophysicsSeismology B
* Physics B

Psychology

* Psychology - General B

Social Sciences

* Anthropology B
* Development Economics B
* Economics B
* Geography B
* International Economics B
* Political Science/Government B
* Sociology B

[Apoc]

Ohhhh Awesome pics!!!
Their student Union building is huuuuge!!!!!!

[tritown]

Man, UCLA is so beautiful

[charitorae]

Why thank you. I take pride in my alma mater.

Anyways, have any of you heard rumors of a proposed UC Chula Vista? I've heard it thrown around here in my hometown...

[hngcm]

UCSD is too! ^_^

Anyways, it will be a while before they even consider a new UC....

Chula Vista is more suitable for a CSU

[charitorae]

I also heard they were going to convert Southwestern College, the CC here in Chula Vista, into a CSU.

[dewback]

I read that they might build a school that offers different types of degrees accredited by various systems. Yet, a CSU option seems realistic. I mean, there is a CSU San Marcos, and Chula Vista/South Bay is bigger.

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Originally Posted by tritown

Man, UCLA is so beautiful

I was also surprised by how beautiful UCLA is. I expected something much different.

Anyone think a CSU Thread is a good idea?

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UC sees record number of freshman applications
By Matt Krupnick
CONTRA COSTA TIMES

BERKELEY - The University of California has received more undergraduate applications than ever for next fall, but community college transfer applications dropped at nearly every campus.

According to preliminary data released Tuesday by the university, nearly 107,000 students applied for admission to the nine undergraduate UC campuses, an increase of 6.6 percent over 2005. Driving the increase was an 8.8 percent rise in the number of applicants applying to be freshmen, with nearly 83,000 such applications this year.

The rise in freshman applications was expected to outpace the increase in high school graduates, meaning that a greater percentage of high school seniors are doing well enough in school to apply for UC admission, said Sue Wilbur, the university's undergraduate-admissions director.

"This is good news for the university ... but it's also good news for the state," she said. "Some good things are happening in California schools, and we should all be celebrating that."

But transfer applications were down at every UC campus except Berkeley, which saw a 1.4 percent increase. The drop, which Wilbur called "troubling," comes two years after California's 109 community colleges experienced a decline in enrollment, in part because of budget cuts that eliminated classes.

Freshman applications in all ethnic groups improved over 2005, including an 11.5 percent increase in applications from black students and 11 percent more Latino applicants. The Berkeley campus attracted a 19 percent increase in both ethnic groups.

"This year I doubled our outreach efforts across the board," said Walter Robinson, UC Berkeley's director of undergraduate admissions. "I think those numbers reflect those efforts."

Campuses will let students know in late March whether they have been admitted. University officials said they expect to admit about 68,500 applicants, or 5,000 more than last year.

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There's also the Christian schools vs. University of California issue: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...NGBNG6N2K1.DTL