The University of California, Merced last week joined the nation’s list of elite research schools, becoming the only Central Valley university to do so, the college announced.

The Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek, marked the 20th anniversary of University of California’s Merced campus with an overview of how it has fared. In polite language, Petek ...

Each UC campus now resides among the exclusive group of 187 accredited doctoral-granting universities in the United States ...

Systemwide applicant and admit counts are unduplicated. UC Merced opened in 2005 so there is no data prior to 2005 for this campus. Beginning in 2011, Merced invited all California resident referrals ...

The Central Valley’s University of California, Merced achieved the esteemed Research 1 designation last week, recognizing it as an institution at the forefront of research and innovation in the ...

There was a slight increase in applications across the UC system but two schools saw a big jump in applications while two schools received less than the year prior. The Merced campus saw the ...

This story was updated to include information on UC Merced's plan to hold all classes online to begin ... to academic engagement for students who are underrepresented on campus and/or part of a ...