加利福尼亚大学
加利福尼亚大学(简称“加州大学”,"UC")是美国加州的一个公立大学系统。该系统从属于加州高等教育总体规划，是本州三大高等教育系统之一，另外两大系统分别是加州州立大学系统和加州社区大学系统。
直至2015年春季，加州大学已有10所分校，总共有学生238,700，教师19,700名，职工135,900名以及活跃在各地的160多万校友。
加州大学的第一所分校是建校于1868年的加州大学伯克利分校，最新的学校是加州大学默塞德分校，它于2005年秋季正式开学。加州大学有9所分校都是包含本科生部和研究生部的，只有旧金山分校例外，它只有医学和健康科学专业招收研究生和在职学生。此外，拥有独立治校权的加州大学哈斯汀法学院位于旧金山，但不属于旧金山分校。
加州大学各分校都有许多杰出的教师，是广受认可的世界顶尖大学之一。据《美国新闻和世界报道》公布的2015年美国大学排名（含公立和私立），加州大学中有7所分校的本科生院进入前100名，6所进入前50名，2所进入前25名。《美国新闻和世界报道》公布的2016年美国公立学校排名中，加州大学伯克利分校与加州大学洛杉矶分校进入前5名，分别是第1名和第2名，五所学校进入前十名，圣塔芭芭拉分校第8名，欧文分校、圣地亚哥分校第9名。除了新建的默塞德分校，其他分校都进入前一百。其中戴维斯分校排第11名，圣克鲁兹分校排34名，河滨分校排在58位。而在世界大学学术排名中，伯克利分校排名第4，洛杉矶分校和圣地亚哥分校进入前15名。
University of California
The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three system public higher education plan, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges System.
As of spring 2015, the University of California has 10 campuses, a combined student body of 238,700 students, 19,700 faculty members, 135,900 staff members and over 1.6 million living alumni.
Its first campus, UC Berkeley, was founded in 1868, while its tenth and newest campus, UC Merced, opened for classes in fall 2005. Nine campuses enroll both undergraduate and graduate students; one campus, UC San Francisco, enrolls only graduate and professional students in the medical and health sciences. In addition, the independently administered UC Hastings is located in San Francisco but is not part of the UCSF campus.
The University of California's campuses boast large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every field and it is widely regarded as one of the top university systems in the world. Seven of its undergraduate campuses are ranked among the top 100, six among the top 50, and two among the top 25 U.S. national universities for 2015, public or private, by U.S. News & World Report. Among public schools, two of its undergraduate campuses are ranked in the top 5 (UC Berkeley at 1 and UCLA at 2), five in the top 10 (UC Santa Barbara at 8, UC Irvine and UC San Diego at 9), and all except the newly opened UC Merced in the top 100 (UC Davis at 11, UC Santa Cruz at 34, UC Riverside at 58, U.S. News & World Report Rankings 2016). UC Berkeley is ranked fourth worldwide among public and private universities and two others—UCLA and UC San Diego—are ranked among the top 15 by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
