University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis is a public land-grant campus of the University of California in Davis, a college town between Sacramento and the Bay Area. It began in 1905 as the University Farm of UC Berkeley and became a general campus in 1959. The grounds cover more than 5,000 acres, among the largest in the UC system, with a structure built around agricultural science, veterinary medicine, and a full set of colleges.

Undergraduate colleges of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science sit alongside professional schools of veterinary medicine, medicine, law, education, and management. Graduate students are known to work in plant and animal science, ecology, enology, biomedical engineering, and the School of Veterinary Medicine. Clinical and lab sites include UC Davis Health in Sacramento, the veterinary medical teaching hospital, and agricultural field stations.

Enrollment is about 40,000, including roughly 8,000 graduate and professional students. International students are around 15 percent of the total. Faculty number more than 2,000. Alumni include former U.S. agriculture secretary Ann Veneman, California chief justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, and astronaut Stephen Robinson.

Graduate degrees include the M.A., M.S., M.B.A., J.D., M.D., D.V.M., and Ph.D. UC Davis uses the quarter calendar. Doctoral students in the sciences are typically supported by assistantships and training grants; professional programs follow cohort coursework plus clinics. Daily life is a bicycle-heavy college town, with Sacramento a short drive for the medical school and state government internships.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of California, Davis lists 159 graduate programs across 41 subjects: 77 master's programs and 74 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in biology, languages & linguistics and earth & environmental sciences. University of California, Davis holds rank 62 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.