About University of California Davis

The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university close Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system, and has the third-largest enrollment in the system after UCLA and UC Berkeley. The institution was first founded as an agricultural branch of the system in 1905 and became the seventh campus of the University of California in 1959.

The academic circles is classified among “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity”. The UC Davis knack includes 23 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 30 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 17 members of the American Law Institute, 14 members of the Institute of Medicine, and 14 members of the National Academy of Engineering. Among additional honors that the academy faculty, alumni, and researchers have won are two Nobel Prizes, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, three Pulitzer Prizes, three MacArthur Fellowships, and a National Medal of Science.

Founded as a primarily agricultural campus, the university has expanded exceeding the considering century to attach graduate and professional programs in medicine (which includes the UC Davis Medical Center), law, veterinary medicine, education, nursing, and issue management, in auxiliary to 90 research programs offered by UC Davis Graduate Studies. The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine is the largest veterinary instructor in the United States and has been ranked first in the world for five consecutive years (2015–19). UC Davis as well as offers certificates and courses, including online classes, for adults and non-traditional learners through its Division of Continuing and Professional Education.

The UC Davis Aggies athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I, primarily as members of the vast West Conference with further sports in the vast Sky Conference (football only) and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. In its first year of full Division I status, 11 UC Davis teams recognized for NCAA post-season competitions.[citation needed]

Davis, known prior to 1907 as Davisville, is a city in the U.S. state of California and the most populous city in Yolo County. It had a population of 65,622 in 2010, not including the on-campus population of the University of California, Davis, which was greater than 9,400 (not including students’ families) in 2016. As of 2019, there were 38,369 students enrolled at the university.