When it first opened its doors in 1869, the University of California had just 10 faculty members and 38 students. Today, the UC system includes more than 209,000 students and more than 170,000 faculty and staff, with more than 1.4 million alumni living and working around the world.

From its inception 20 years after the California Gold Rush, UC faculty and students have looked to cross the horizons of what we know about our selves and our world, and what we can do in it. That was the vision of the pioneers living at the farthest frontiers of the American continent when they created a University for the Golden State. As we chart our course through the 21st century, the University of California is still at the frontier.

UC researchers are pioneers in agriculture, medicine, technology and the environment. Thousands of California jobs, billions of dollars in revenues, and countless everyday household items – from more plentiful fruits and vegetables to compact fluorescent light bulbs – can be traced back to UC discoveries. Similarly, many of the state's leading businesses have connections to UC. Those companies were either based on technology developed by the university, were founded by our faculty or alumni, or are headed by UC graduates.

UC's ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara provide exciting environments that foster world-class educational and research opportunities and generate a wide range of benefits and services that touch the lives of Californians every day.

• Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, University of California, San Diego
• Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside
• Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California
• Institute for the Applications of Mathematics & Integrated Science
• Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles
• School of Natural Sciences, University of California
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
• The BioCircuits Institute, University of California
• University of California at Davis, Department of Mathematics
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics
• University of California, Berkeley, Department of Mathematics
• University of California, Berkeley, Department of Statistics
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Institute for Nonlinear Science
• University of California, Irvine
• University of California, Irvine, Department Civil and Environmental Engineering
• University of California, Irvine, Department of Mathematics
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, Los Angeles, Departments of Electrical Engineering
• University of California, Los Angeles, Departments of Mathematics
• University of California, Riverside
• University of California, Riverside, Department of Mathematics
• University of California, San Diego
• University of California, San Diego, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• University of California, San Diego, Department of Mathematics
• University of California, San Diego, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering
• University of California, San Francisco
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
• University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Physics
• University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
• University of California, Santa Barbara, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• University of California, Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
• University of California, Santa Cruz