UC Merced GraduateDivision

Welcome to the University of California, Merced! Located in the heart of California’s Central Valley, UC Merced is the 10th and newest University of California campus. As a graduate student at UC Merced, you will enjoy the benefits of a major research university as well as the personalized attention of an intimate campus setting. More than 100 world-class professors have answered the call to found California's newest research university. Faculty members are working in cutting-edge areas such as sustainable energy, the effects of climate change on natural systems in the Sierra Nevada, cancer treatments, antibiotic resistance, genomics, nanotechnology, language acquisition and integrating mathematics and computing with other sciences. Explore the graduate degrees UC Merced offers and learn how you can become part of our growing campus community!