User:Majing9/University of California Davis Graduate Studies

UC Davis Graduate Studies offers over 90 graduate programs and includes a student body of over 4,000 students from around the world.

History
The graduate division has a long history in the University of California system, particularly at the Berkley, Davis, and San Francisco campuses. Graduate education has been a major feature of the UC Davis academic focus for over 80 years. It began in partnership with the Graduate Division at University of Berkeley and culminated in the fall of 1925 with 12 students graduating from the College of Agriculture. As the years progressed, the UC inter-campus graduate group programs continued to grow and support one another. The first graduate degrees were awarded from the UC Davis campus in June 1949.

In 1961, autonomous Graduate Divisions and Graduate Councils were established at all University of California campuses, thereby allowing for focusing oversight of graduate education on each of the campuses.

Academics
UC Davis Graduate Studies offers over 90 master's and doctoral degree programs. 

The Graduate Group Experience

A key concept of graduate education in UC Davis is the graduate group. The core elements of a graduate group include an emphasis on shared research interests among faculty and students to reflect emerging areas of interdisciplinary knowledge and technology. UC Davis offers more graduate groups than any other campus in the California University system.

Rankings

 * 1st among 96 of “America's Coolest Schools” 2012, Sierra magazine's sixth annual ranking of the greenest universities (a publication of the Sierra Club)
 * 1st among U.S. universities in number of faculty papers written in the field of ecology and the environment, agriculture, entomology, food science and nutrition, and plant and animal sciences (ScienceWatch)
 * Tied for 1st among research universities (with UC Berkeley and Penn State) as the top producer of U.S. Fulbright Scholars, 2012-13
 * 3rd among global organizations for the number of citations in peer-reviewed journals in the field of plant and animal sciences – surpassed only by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the INRA, the national research organization of France
 * 7th among public universities (The Best Colleges,"Top 50 Colleges and Universities in America 2011-12")
 * 7th among the 20 Best Colleges for Socially Conscious Students (Best Colleges Online 2012)
 * 8th among U.S. universities based on their contributions to society (Washington Monthly 2011)
 * 8th among public research universities nationwide and 38th among public and private research universities (U.S. News & World Report's 2013 "America's Best Colleges")
 * 10th for “Happiest Schools in America” (Newsweek, “College Rankings 2011”)
 * 14th among U.S. colleges for "Best Value Colleges for 2012" (The Princeton Review 2012)
 * 14th in research funding among U.S. ranked public universities and 22nd for public and private universities (National Science Foundation 2011)
 * Among the top 10 centers for biomedical research (The Hartwell Foundation 2012)
 * Ranked among the top 50 universities in the world, according to the Institute for Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China (2012)
 * One of 62 North American universities admitted to the prestigious Association of American Universities


 * U.S. News & World Report, "America's Best Graduate Schools 2012-2014" ranked several UC Davis graduate programs among the top in the nation:
 * Biological Sciences: Ecology/Evolutionary Biology, #3
 * Biological Sciences, #20
 * Chemistry, #38
 * Computer Science, #39
 * Earth Sciences, #17
 * Economics, #32
 * English, #26
 * Engineering, #33
 * Engineering: Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical, #26
 * Engineering: Bioagricultural, #8
 * Engineering: Biomedical/Bioengineering, #18
 * Engineering: Chemical, #29
 * Engineering: Civil, 13
 * Engineering: Computer, #31
 * Engineering: Electrical/Electronic/Communications, #40
 * Engineering: Environmental/Environmental Health, #14
 * Engineering: Materials, #26
 * Engineering: Mechanical, #35
 * Fine Arts, #21
 * Fine Art: Art/Art History/Technocultural Studies, #27
 * Fine Arts: Ceramics, #12
 * Geology, #17
 * History, #27
 * History: U.S. Colonial History, #9
 * Mathematics, #36
 * Mathematics: Topology, #13
 * Physics, #26
 * Political Science, #23
 * Political Science: American Politics, #19
 * Political Science: Comparative Politics, #15
 * Political Science: Political Methodology, #15
 * Psychology, #21
 * Sociology, #31
 * Statistics, #31


 * Among the top 5 for number of master’s degrees for minority students in the biological/biomedical programs (Top 100 Producers of Minority Degrees 2011", Diverse Issues in Higher Education)


 * Following a comprehensive survey of U.S. doctorate programs, the National Research Council released results in 2010 ranking UC Davis graduate programs among the best of the nation. Among the top five percent were graduate programs in Spanish, Entomology, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Plant Biology, Ecology, and Nutritional Biology. Approximately one-third of UC Davis graduate programs ranked in the top 25 percent in their respective fields.