18 talented undergraduates travel to Costa Rica

Imagine slogging through humid rainforests so dense your pace slows to a crawl, encountering spiders as big as your hand, plants that burn your skin, and mud so deep you sink up to your knees. And loving it. [More]

UC Santa Cruz is well known for the outstanding educational experience it provides to students. In an ongoing series of profiles, the achievements of UCSC students are celebrated.

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43 Things You Might Not Know...

...about UC Santa Cruz. You may know about UCSC's mascot-the slow, humble, neon-yellow banana slug. You might even know about the intimate feeling within the campus's individual colleges. In honor of the campus's 43rd year, however, here are 43 things we bet you didn't know about UC Santa Cruz.

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Academic Programs

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Reputation, Rankings & Distinctions

UCSC has increasingly been recognized for the excellence of its faculty and its academic offerings. See About UCSC.

Undergraduate Research

UCSC offers undergraduates many ways to engage in research activities, either by participating in the ongoing projects of the faculty or by developing their own projects under faculty supervision. See Undergraduate Experience.

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UC Santa Cruz to offer new Ph.D program in Film and Digital Media [More]

Job fair helps students consider graduate school [More]

Students conduct research at the "icy edge" of climate change in the Peruvian Andes [More]