University of California, Merced is a public institution that was founded in 2005. In the 2026 edition of Best Colleges, ...

On May 18, 1995, the University of California Board of Regents voted to select Merced as the site for its ninth undergraduate campus. To get to that point, Merced had to beat out what started as a ...

With support from CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Brittany Barreto Martinez demonstrated that satellite imaging can help protect public health by augmenting standard sampling methods. The San Luis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The University of California, Merced campus is shown in a file photo. (Andrew Kuhn/akuhn@mercedsun-star.com) The University of ...

UC admitted a record 102,031 California first-year students for fall 2026, while Berkeley and UCLA remained the system's most selective campuses.

The UC system received 205,431 first-year applications for fall 2026 and admitted 153,272, amounting to an acceptance rate of ...

UC Merced is marking its 20th anniversary this year, celebrating two decades since the campus opened to students.

The University of California, Merced last week joined the nation’s list of elite research schools, becoming the only Central Valley university to do so, the college announced. The Central San Joaquin ...

The University of California, Merced campus. Merced Sun-Star File Image. Andrew Kuhn akuhn@mercedsun-star.com The University of California, Merced saw a decline in new student undergraduate fall ...

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