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UC Santa Cruz was ranked 129th in the list of Best Global Universities and tied for 82nd in the list of Best National Universities in the United States by U.S. News & World Report ' s 2024 rankings. [102] In 2021, UC Santa Cruz was ranked the No. 3 public university in the nation for "making an impact" and No. 4 for promoting social mobility.
UC Santa Cruz joined the NCAA in September 1980 after years of playing in unofficial club competition. In 2016, due to mounting debt in the funding of the athletic program, the university polled its students on whether or not they would approve an increase in student fees which would be necessary to maintain the athletic program.
UCSC may refer to: University of California, Santa Cruz, a public university in Santa Cruz, California; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, a private Catholic university based in Milan, Italy; University of Colombo School of Computing, a college affiliated with the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka
Kresge College is one of the residential colleges that make up the University of California, Santa Cruz. Founded in 1971 and named after Sebastian Kresge, Kresge college is located on the western edge of the UCSC campus. Kresge is the sixth of ten colleges at UCSC, and originally one of the most experimental.
The Silicon Valley Campus offers several master's programs designed to support the diverse workforce in the Silicon Valley area. [7] It currently houses an M.S. program in Games and Playable Media and an M.S. program in Serious Games, with an M.S. in Natural Language Processing and M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction in development, with a tentative launch date of Fall 2020.
John R. Lewis College was founded in 2002 as College Ten, making it the newest UCSC college as of May 2017. On October 27, 2021, Chancellor Cynthia Larive announced that the university will be renaming College Ten after civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis . [ 3 ]
Gurdon Woods – sculptor, founding chair of the art department at UC Santa Cruz, 1966–1974 [19] [20] Stanford E. Woosley – professor of astronomy and astrophysics; noted for his work on supernova gamma ray bursts ; member of the NAS (elected 2006) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2001) [ 17 ]
Crown was founded in 1967 when the Chancellor Dean E. McHenry invited biologist Kenneth V. Thimann to come to Santa Cruz and head what would become Crown College and to build the science faculty at UCSC.