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, culture and healthcare. UCR gives every student the resources to explore, engage, imagine and excel.
In Fact...
- Enrollment: 20,956 total students enrolled in Fall 2011
- 18,523 undergraduates
- 2,433 graduate students
Ethnicity
- : African American 7.9%
- : Asian/Asian American 39.9%
- : Chicano and Latino 28.9%
- : Native American 0.4%
- : White/Caucasian 17.0%
- : other ethnic/unknown 4.5%
- : international 1.5%
Academics
- 64.6% of bachelor’s degrees are completed within four years
- 29.4% within five years
- 6.0% 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)
- School of Business Administration (SOBA), which includes the 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.
- School of Medicine projected to enroll its first class in fall 2012.
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 Raymond L. Orbach Science Library
- The Music Library
- The Multimedia Library
- The Palm Desert Graduate Center Digital Library and Student Learning Center