UC Merced is leading the way in California’s Central Valley, and the nation for helping young people build better lives for themselves and their families through higher education. With hands-on programs, competitive research experiences and student success opportunities that prepare them for the future.
SUMMER BRIDGE PROGRAM brings first-generation students onto campus during the summer before first-year classes to provide acculturation and study skills to prepare them for college life.
COMPETITIVE EDGE SUMMER BRIDGE ensures graduate students are better equipped to complete their degrees and go on to successful careers, by helping them navigate life in a new city and at a new level of academic intensity.
The CALVIN E. BRIGHT SUCCESS CENTER provides opportunities and co-curricular experiences that aid students in enhancing their knowledge of university resources, academic and personal growth and development, and advocacy and access, through learning support, transition programs and individual interventions.
Our LIVING-LEARNING COMMUNITIES help students to find their micro-communities, sharing study and social lives with like-minded peers organized around fields of study, such as natural sciences, or areas of passionate concern, such as social justice.
A Commitment to Diversity and Social Mobility
- UC Merced Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz has been named the recipient of the 2020 Cesar Estrada Chavez Award from the American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity
- Professor Tracey Osborne Taking on Complex, Grand Challenges in Climate and Social Justice
- New Program Bringing Telehealth Services to Vulnerable Merced County Residents
- UC Merced Chancellor Muñoz serves on the board of HACU
- UC Merced Receives Grant To Expand Biology Curriculum
- University of the Year: The University of California, Merced
