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September 22, 2026

Students gathered around a UC Merced sign,
In recognition of its growing national reputation, UC Merced has been named the 30th best public university in the country by U.S. News & World Report. The announcement was made today as part of USNWR’s 2027 Best Colleges list, the esteemed annual report that tabulates more than 1,700...
Jim Brugger, the retired director of campus engineering services, gestures while leading a tour of the UC Merced campus.
Many organizations claim sustainability is baked into their DNA. Nowhere is that truer than at UC Merced, where the approach to sustainability, climate action and ecological conservation is part of...
Members of the Earth Institute posed next to a branded sign
UC Merced is deepening its investment in the fight against climate change, uniting scientific expertise across campus to help confront the effects of a changing planet. ...
New students walking across Scholars Bridge
UC Merced is welcoming the largest class in university history this fall, as record numbers of first-year and transfer students propel total enrollment to an all-time high of 9,647 students....
Graphic with five headshots of new faculty endowed chairs
Five faculty members in the UC Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts have been appointed to endowed chairs, recognizing their scholarship and contributions to research that serve...
Students cheering from the stands
Fueled by a $38 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott — her second to UC Merced and the largest single philanthropic gift in the university's history — and the...
Mural artist William Paulson addresses event attendees behind a podium
"These works are a tribute to nature, to culture, and to time itself."  That's how UC Merced Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz described "Four Seasons of Yosemite" during...
UC Merced students and parents using carts to move stuff into residence halls
The growing energy across campus is palpable as UC Merced prepares for its 21st academic year. Fall semester instruction begins Wednesday, Aug. 26, furthering the mission of one of the nation’s...
UC Merced farmland
UC Merced researchers are launching a project that could change how Central Valley growers harness the sun’s energy, using a family of light-active molecules developed at the university to...
Summer Bridge Academy students pose in front of banner that says Campos
For the second year, UC Merced has partnered with the Campos Foundation to host the Campos ENgage Engineering Summer Bridge Academy, a weeklong summer program aimed at supporting...

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