UC Facts and Figures

• one of the largest universities in the country, with an enrollment of 35,000 students
• ranked a Class 1 Research University by the Carnegie Commission -- one of only 88 universities in the country to have that distinction
• offers more than 500 undergraduate, master's and doctoral degree programs in 17 colleges
• $808 million total current endowment
• first to offer co-op education in 1906
  
• international students represent more than 80 countries

Some Famous UC Alumni

• William Howard Taft, President of the United States and later, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
• Joseph B. Strauss, designer and builder of the Golden Gate Bridge
• Albert Sabin, developer of the first oral polio vaccine
• George Rieveschl, Jr., creator of the antihistamine Benadryl