Like any startup, UC Merced is settling in among the established giants, the 156-year-old UC Berkeley, 138-year-old Stanford University and 105-year-old UCLA, each with scores of Nobel laureates ...

Here’s the data That’s a 45% rise in applications for next fall, compared with the usual climb of about 5 percentage points in a single year. Short of magic, how did it happen? Scott Hagg, UC Merced ...

The Merced campus saw the largest spike in applications ... than the previous year with Santa Cruz taking a hit of 6,142 and UCLA seeing 103 less applications. These are the percentage increases ...

The proposed enrollment growth at UC is uneven across its campuses. Five campuses — Berkeley, UCLA, Merced, Riverside and San Diego — would expand enrollment by between 2,500 and 5,000 students. But ...

New numbers by the University of California show a slight decrease in admissions overall but a couple of schools saw big increases.