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This type of advisor can be helpful in guiding you to faculty members who align with your interests.
Academic Advisor
This is the minimum amount of credits that can be taken for you to still be considered a full-time student
12 credits
When dining halls close, students head to this late-night spot at Merrill/Crown college for burgers, fries, and more
Banana Joes
This college is still building housing that is supposed to add nearly 1000 new beds for the next academic school year.
Kresge College
What postgraduate degree is known for its job networking opportunities?
MBA - Masters of Business Administration
What is the UCSC college that is named after a pioneering marine biologist, author, and conservationist who launched the modern environmental movement?
Rachel Carson College
Even though you can be admitted as a proposed major, by your 6th quarter, what do you have to do to finalize your commitment to a specific major?
Declare your major
If you want to avoid an 8am class, you better hope you have an early one of these appointments.
Enrollment Appointment
To get UCSC campus housing you likely need to win a great time slot in what lottery?
Housing Lottery; Room Selection Lottery
Among the UCSC 2024-2025 graduating seniors who completed the "First Destination Survey", this was the most common single job title reported.
Software Engineer
This UCSC student class level (first-year, sophomores, juniors, seniors) that most often skips class.
Seniors, about 1 in 7 (14%), compared with 1 in 11 (9%) for first-year frosh, based on responses in the 2024 UC Undergraduate Experience Survey. "Senioritis" is real!
What is the specific quarter deadline that you must take Writing 2 before?
Seventh Quarter
You might find engineering students pulling all nighters in this Baskin Engineering space
Jacks Lounge
During which academic quarter did the most students reported lacking, at some point during that quarter, a safe, regular, or adequate nighttime place to stay.
Fall Quarter - 4.3% at some point during that quarter, based on the 2024 UC Undergraduate Experience Survey; Winter Quarter was 3.3% and Spring Quarter was 2.3% at some point
They say “be your own CEO”, but in reality, the CEO reports to…
Board of Directors
While UCSC has since reverted to standard grading, UCSC was famous for decades for using what qualitative assessments, instead of letter grades.
Narrative Evaluations
Out of these 3 - "exploring majors", making an "academic plan", and "selecting courses" – which is the topic most UCSC students seek help from advisors on?
Academic plans: about 2/3rds; about 1/2 of students ask advisors for help on course selection, or exploring majors, during a given year. Information is from the UCUES Survey.
If you’ve given up on sleeping, you might head down to Mission Street for a 3am sugar rush at this donut shop
Ferrell’s Donuts
These campus staff members patrol residential areas between 7pm and 3am, while also supporting on-call residential staff (RAs, CREs, etc.)
RCSPs - Residential Community Service Partners
Rounding out the top 50 of the Fortune500 company list, the Archer Daniels Midland Company is in what industry?
Food Production - $85B in revenue
This Nobel laureate pioneered research on the structure of telomeres and works at UCSC as a professor under the MCD Biology department
Carol Grieder
You need this specific cumulative total of credits by the end of your 4 years if you want to graduate.
180 credits
In 2024, of the 10 largest majors on campus, this is the major where the most students got 7 or more hours of sleep on an average weeknight
Politics; about 7 in 10 (71%); the lowest was Art + Design: Games and Playable Media, half (51%); most large majors were over 6 in 10 (~60%). Information is from the UCUES Survey.
If you are experiencing unsafe or unstable housing conditions off-campus, you can reach out to this program that can help provide 1:1 case management support options
Slug Support
Yum! Brands - parent company to KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut - made over $1B in revenue in 2025. As an estimate, how much did this company pay in 2025 federal income taxes? (+/- $1m)
$0