Facts
In the Heart of Inland Southern California
Located on nearly 1,200 acres near Box Springs Mountain in Southern California, the park-like campus provides convenient access to the vibrant and growing Inland region. The campus is a living laboratory for the exploration of issues critical to growing communities — air, water, energy, transportation, politics, the arts, history and culture. UCR gives every student the resources to explore, engage, imagine and excel.
In Fact...
- Enrollment: 18,079 students enrolled in Fall 2008
- 15,708 undergraduates
- 2,371 graduate students
- Enrollment is projected to grow to about 25,000 students by the year 2015
Ethnicity
- : African American 7.1%
- : Asian/Asian American 36.4%
- : Chicano and Latino 25.3%
- : Native American 0.4%
- : White/Caucasian 19.3%
- : other ethnic 2.4%
- : international/decline-to-state 9.1%
Academics
- 57% of bachelor’s degrees are completed within four years
- 36% within five years
- 7% within six years
UCR Offers
The University of California, Riverside offers: 80 bachelor degree programs, 46 master's degree programs, 38 Ph.D. programs and 17 California teaching and administrative credential programs.
Academic units are:
- College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS)
- College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS)
- Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCoE)
- A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management (AGSM)
- Graduate School of Education (GSOE)
- The Division of Biomedical Sciences partners with UCLA to offer a path to a medical degree.
- University Extension offers continuing education to the community as well as English instruction to thousands of international students each year.
The UCR Libraries hold collections totaling 2,368,843 volumes, 22,151 serial subscriptions and 1,772,053 microforms, and more than 1,410,700 government publications. These information resources are housed in four facilities:
- The Tomás Rivera Library, home to the famed Eaton Collection, the world’s largest cataloged collection of science fiction and fantasy.
- The Science Library
- The Music Library
- The Multimedia Library
- The Palm Desert Graduate Center Digital Library and Student Learning Center
