UC Merced 2018-19 Admissions Guide

NATIONAL ATTENTION UC Merced was recognized in 2016 as one of the BESTPUBLIC UNIVERSITIES INTHE NATION in U.S. News andWorld Report’s Best Colleges Rankings BEST

UC Merced RANKED #1 out of the top 250 public colleges

REGARD FOR RESEARCH The Carnegie Foundation ranked UC Merced among107 top universities in the country as a “higher research” institution in 2016

that offer freshman the MOSTFINANCIALAIDBY The Student Loan Report in 2017

U.S. News and World Report ranks UCMerced #47 among public institutions in alumni giving rates

CAREER GUIDANCE UCMerced is ranked #16

among schools nationally for career outcomes by Educate to Career

UCMERCED has been featured in Parade magazine’s COLLEGE A-LIST for Small State Schools

UC Me r c e d r a n k s 5th in the nation out of more than 300 universities for “social mobility” in the Washington Monthly 2016 College Guide

The GoodCall 2016 Best Schools for Scholarships Report lists UCMerced as

#8 out of 4,000 U.S. public colleges and universities for earning scholarships

h o u s i n g received an “A” GRADE IN NICHE’S 2016 BEST COLLEGES R A N K I N G S

Made The Princeton Review’s list of the MOSTENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLECOLLEGES for the second consecutive year in 2016

ranked among the “Cool Schools” BY THE SIERRA CLUB’S S I E R R A M A G A Z I N E

CAMPUS DIVERSITY UC Merced i s the most ethnically and

In 2016, UC Merced was the 8th-best college in the Western U.S. FORAFFORDABILITY,

culturally diverse of all of the University of California campuses, and it was ranked the

12 th MOST DIVERSE

according to Washington Monthly’s “Best Bang for the Buck: Western Colleges”

university in the nation by bestcolleges.com in 2015