The University of California, chartered in 1868, is a 10 campus public university system with a mission of teaching, research and public service. With 209,000 students, 124,000 faculty and staff, and 1.4 million alumni, UC is the world's premier public university. UC has five medical schools, three law schools and the nation's largest continuing education program. Forty-nine researchers affiliated with UC have been awarded Nobel Prizes; 17 of which have been won since 1995. UC also has 372 members in the National Academy of Sciences and 538 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, while UC-affiliated researchers have received 48 Medals of Science since Congress created the award in 1959.

UC currently manages Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories on behalf of the Department of Energy. The University, working with Bechtel National, BWX Technologies and Washington Group International, also manages Los Alamos National Laboratory.

UC researchers are pioneers in agriculture, medicine, technology and the environment. Thousands of California jobs, billions of dollars in revenues, and countless everyday household items – from more plentiful fruits and vegetables to compact fluorescent light bulbs – can be traced back to UC discoveries. Similarly, many of the state's leading businesses have connections to UC. Those companies were either based on technology developed by the university, were founded by our faculty or alumni, or are headed by UC graduates.

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