Housing
Most Common Room Type
Triple
CAPS Services
Free, drop-in, 20-minute counseling sessions through a program called Let's Talk, online or in person*
Mobile Crisis Team*
Typical Course Load - A Quarter
Typical course load is 3 classes, 5 units each (15 units total)
3 mandatory quarters, 1 optional (summer)
Each quarter is 10 weeks long + finals week
Number of Other libraries other than McHenry and S&E
10 smaller libraries at each residential college
Ranking as a Research Institute
Tier 1 research institute which represents the amount of research spending and doctorate production.
Percentage of first-year students living on campus
98%
The number of emergency blue lights on campus
42 !
74 majors and 43 minors*
Number of Books on Campus
1.5 million
Research Example on Campus
Human Genome project*
We were the first institution (public or private) to sequence the entire human genome. Since we’re public, this makes this information more accessible to people of all backgrounds.
UCSC Coastal Campus*
Lots of research with conservation organizations and federal agencies
Undergraduate courses and labs in Ecology and Evolutionary sciences are taught here
An example of themed housing
Rosa Parks African American House, Trans Inclusive, Merrill Indigenous Peoples Floor, Quiet Floors, Single Gender Floors, Video Game Floor, Adventure Floor
Safe Ride run time
7pm- 12am
Arts
Humanities
Social Sciences
Physical and Biological Sciences
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
Counter Culture movements such as the Grateful Dead archive located 1st floor of McHenry
A four-thousand-year-old cuneiform tablet (pronounced kyoo·nee·uh·form), which highlights a transaction of groceries and is the oldest thing in the collection
A book made out of rat skin, where the rat was actually caught in the library and bound by local book binders, the book itself is a dictionary of cheeses.
Zines, Books, Poem and more from bay area artists & authors. That are typically made by hand in small batches
We have a large comic book collection, featuring the first appearance of Spiderman
UCSC university archives, preserving non-current records and historical information documenting the campus, its people, its administration and its culture.
Percentage of Students who've done/are doing research...
75%
Population of students living on campus
49%
CruzAlert services
Notification service for campus emergencies
Sends emergency notifications via email, and text message
5 most popular majors (in order)
Computer Science, Psychology, Business Management Economics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science: Game Design
Interlibrary Loan System service
access to all books, articles, and media items across all UC campuses, CSU campuses, and many other national and international libraries!
Enrollment percentage to be an HSI Institution
25% : Long-term change efforts that ensure Latinx students wholeheartedly take part in the UCSC community, find success on their educational journey and eventually graduate to make an impact in the world
Cowells' College Theme
The pursuit of truth in the company of friends
Other Health Services on Campus * There is more than one to choose from*
The Cove: Recovery and harm reduction services located by Cowell College (you can point it out as you walk past)
Student Health Outreach Program (SHOP): Student-run advocacy and harm reduction program
Center for Advocacy, Resources, and Empowerment (CARE): services for education about and prevention of interpersonal violence
Student to Faculty Ratio
22:1
Course Reserve System
- textbooks/required books for classes on reserve in the library that you can pull out for up to 72 hours at a time
Name another research example!