A drive-through visit over Thanksgiving break (limited access due to COVID-19 closures) and a recent webinar have given me some insight on another University of California campus, UC Riverside.
My take-aways:
- What a beautiful campus. Lots of open space for students to congregate and plentiful housing opportunities with options for traditional residence halls and apartments, including for upperclassmen.
- UCR started out as an extension of UC Berkeley, as their citrus experiment station. The campus houses the largest collection of citrus in the world (who knew?) and is the origin of such citrus innovations as “Cuties” mandarins.
- UCR has a strong commitment to diversity. They were the first campus to offer gender neutral housing, as well as leaders in creating an LGBTQ Resource Center and a Middle Eastern Student Center.
- More than 150 majors/minors available, including unique offerings such as Entomology, Botany, Creative Writing (the only UC to offer this major), and Education, Society and Human Development. They also offer joint BS/MS programs in Entomology and Engineering, and one of the largest Business programs of the UCs. The university boasts an impressive 21:1 professor to student ratio.
Hoping to apply but worried you missed the UC application deadline? UC Riverside’s application deadline has been extended to December 15. More info here:
