University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)

UC Santa Cruz is a public university combining the intimacy of a small, liberal arts college with the depth and rigor of a major research university. Located on Monterey Bay, on the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the campus lies on 810 ha of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. In Fall 2022, its ten residential colleges enroll some 17,500 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students.