Located next to the Santa Ynez Mountains, University of California, Santa Barbara's 1,086 faculty includes five Nobel Prize winners as well as dozens of winners of Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships. UC-Santa Barbara is one of only 63 research-intensive institutions elected to membership in the Association of American Universities. UC-Santa Barbara enrolls 22,850 scholars and offers more than 200 majors, degrees and credentials with science alone having 80 majors. Newsweek's Guide to America's Best Colleges named UCSB one of the country's "hottest colleges" twice in the past 10 years.
The University of California, Los Angeles is one of the world's prodigious research universities, No. 11 in London's Times Higher Education rankings 2010-2011. UCLA has nearly 40,000 scholars with as many as 36 percent of 13,000 undergraduates receiving Pell Grants. UCLA offers The Hammer Museum for emerging artists as well as academic departments for music, theater, architecture and design. UCLA's goal is to better the lives and well-being of the people around them. One of the school's recent accomplishments is the Luskin Center's solar energy plan for Los Angeles. UCLA faculty members include Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur fellows and national academy members.
The University of California, Irvine was founded in 1965. Scholars who articulate at UC-Irvine strive to go outside the classroom and laboratories to speak about social issues and improve the human condition. UC-Irvine offers one of Orange County's only university hospitals using the latest technologies to provide specialized medical and surgical treatments to local citizens. Hospitals include UC-Irvine Medical Center and UC-Irvine Douglas Hospital. UC-Irvine enrolls 28,000 scholars and 1,100 faculty members. Regularly ranked one of the best universities, UC-Irvine researchers have won Nobel Prizes with two in chemistry and one in physics.
The University of California, Riverside is the only UC campus located inland in southern California; positioned fifty miles east of Los Angeles. UC-Riverside, as of 2011, enrolls 19,000 scholars with intentions to expand to 21,000 by the year 2020. UC-Riverside offers 65 undergraduate majors, 39 Ph.D. programs, 37 master's programs and 17 state teaching credential programs. UC-Riverside also offers the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan for financial aid for local residents.
The University of California, San Diego is located along the Pacific Ocean on 1,200 acres. UC-San Diego enrolls 23,143 undergraduates with 47 percent having their major field of study being social science and 22 percent study biology. Some of UC-San Diego's specialized resources are the UC-San Diego Medical Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC-San Diego Health System and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
University of California's flagship campus Berkeley was chartered in 1868. Located on San Francisco Bay, the campus occupies 1,232 acres with the central core sylvan being 178 acres. The goal of the academic community is to make contributions to the economic and social welfare of the local community, California and the nation. UC Berkeley enrolls 35,838 scholars as of the fall of 2010. UC Berkeley has 1,582 faculty with eight having been named Nobel Prize winners, along with 32 MacArthur Fellows and four Pulitzer Prize winners. Some of the most popular majors at UC Berkeley are Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Political Science, Molecular and Cell Biology, Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Economics.