Campuses

University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Merced University of California, Riverside University of California, San Diego University of California, San Francisco University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Hastings College of the Law

Administration

When a UC campuses come operated fairly expeditiously, a body does have a reputation among its students & alumni for mediocre customer service. A usual illness come a hanker lines which students typically must sub for potentially a simplest administrative tasks accomplished, a hanker hold off days prior to phone calls come answered, & a overcomplicated paperwork that is typically involved.

In a period of the Nineties, a bit of campuses (rather UCLA) sharply streamlined numerous internal procedures by owning Web applications. Others (rather UC Berkeley) were slower to adapt — when of 2005, Berkeley students still enroll inside classes via a senescent Tele-BEARS models, which occurs as Web interface in top of an older touch-tone phone system.

Successively, UC's customer service problems might stand something to clean by owning a fact that UC campuses typically lag behind like universities, within terms of the percentage of alumni that give back to their alma mater.

Peripheral enterprises

A University of California has an extended tradition of involvement inside numbers of interesting enterprises that come typically geographically or even organizationally separate from either its general campuses, including national laboratories, observatories, hospitals, continuing education computer software, travel & conference facilities, & an art institute. National laboratories
A University of California manages deuce-ace national laboratories on behalf of the United States Department of Energy: Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory A UC's ties to a laboratories use on occasion sparked contestation & protest among a academician & students in a body, when completely deuce-ace laboratories stand been intimately linked using the development of nuclear weapons. For instance, Lawrence Berkeley Lab worked in separating u isotopes when you took World War II, & a Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore science laboratory alone designed a united states's nuclear weapons until their shift into stockpile stewardship at the prevent of the Cold War).

A UC ties to a science lab, even so, stand outlasted everthing periods of internal tilt, though recent questions all about improper oversight procedures could call for the relationship into wonder once again. Recently, a Department of Energy has first opened higher a Los Alamos contract for bidding to more vender besides a University of California.

Within September 2003, a NASA Ames Research Center took a bold step towards increasing a science output, safety, & effectiveness of NASA's missions through the infusion of fresh technologies & scientific techniques. a decade-month project a correct sequence contract valued at to the higher degree $330 million was awarded to the University of California to establish & work a University Affiliated Search Center (UARC) - the big grant ever awarded the University. UC Santa Cruz manages the UARC for the University of California.

Observatories

A University of California manages deuce observatories as a multi-campus research unit headquartered at its Santa Cruz campus. Lick Observatory Keck Observatory

A Astronomy Department at a Berkeley campus manages the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Shasta County, California.

Hospitals

A University of California has medical schools at Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, & San Francisco, & both school of medicine has an associated teaching hospital which is owned and operated by UC. Entirely 5 teaching hospitals come extremely regarded. UCLA Medical Center in particular is consistently ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the top hospital on the West Coast, with the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center ranked second.

In a latter half of a 20th century, the UC hospitals became the core of good-fledged regional health systems; it were step by step supplemented by numbers of outpatient clinics, agents, & institutes. San Diego County actually shut dhave its own public hospital & contracted out its health care responsibilities to UCSD.

UC Extension

For above the century, the University has operated a continuing education program for working adults & agents. Now, UC Extension enrolls above 500,000 students both month around on top 17,000 courses. One of a reasons for its brobdingnagian size is that UC Extension occurs as dominant provider of Continuing Legal Education & Continuing Medical Education around California.

Travel and conference facilities

UCLA operates two its have in-campus hotel, the UCLthe Guest Home, & a shower conference house at Lake Arrowhead. UC Berkeley's California Alumni Association operates travel excursions for alumni (& their families) under its "BearTreks" brand. BearTreks is unusual therein a tour guides come normally Berkeley prof. CAA besides operates an exclusive resort in a Sierra Nevada, the Den of the Golden Bear, likewise upright for Cal alumni & their families.

Other affiliated institutions
San Francisco Art Institute The University of California Center for Animal Alternatives

Trivia
3 UC schools keep close at hand carillon towers: UC Berkeley's Sather Tower, UC Santa Barbara's Storke Tower, and UC Riverside's Carillon Tower. According to UCLA's Daily Bruin campus newspaper, UCLA is so easily-known inside Asia that a university has licensed its trademark to Fifteen UCLA-branded places through East Asia. [http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?ID=32621] Every UC campus (except for Merced, in which build-out has non been completed) has the Sproul Hall. In a example of San Diego, these are in the form of the search boat, the R/V Robert Gordon Sproul.