This week, the University of California announced that its application will go live on Aug. 1. The University of California (UC) is arguably the best public school college system in the nation, and ...

University of California, Davis is a public institution that was founded in 1905. In the 2026 edition of Best Colleges, ...

Preliminary data for fall 2025 released this week revealed that the University of California system admitted its largest number of California students ever while simultaneously seeing a slight drop in ...

Some campuses have already informed applicants about whether they've been accepted. All freshman applicants should hear news by the end of March, while transfer students will have to wait until the ...

For Bay Area students, it is a pointed reminder that where you apply, and what you say you want to study, can sharply change your odds. The interactive project from the San Francisco Chronicle breaks ...

Bay Area high schoolers are more likely than students from other states to have completed the requirements to get into a California public university, according to a Chronicle analysis of state ...

If you’re a Californian with college on the horizon, here’s a piece of good news: The University of California accepted over 77 percent of in-state first-year undergraduate applicants for fall 2025.