University of California - Davis

UC Davis International Student Insurance

The University of California, Davis (UC Davis), located near Davis, California, was established in 1905. It opened in 1909 as the University Farm, a farm school for the University of California system. The first female students were admitted in 1914. A four-year undergraduate academic program was established in 1922, and in that same year, the school was renamed the Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture. In 1959, the Regents of the University of California admitted the school as the seventh general campus in its system, and it adopted its present name.

Today, UC Davis enrolls almost 40,000 students and counting each year, the third-largest enrollment in the University of California system. Its colors are Aggie blue and gold, and its athletic nickname is the Aggies.

Academic Offerings

Some major university institutions include the UC Davis Medical Center, acquired in 1973 and located in Sacramento, California; the School of Law; and the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, the largest veterinary school in the U.S. and which consistently ranks among the top programs of its kind in both the country and the world.

Noteworthy research centers include the John Muir Institute of the Environment (the largest at the university), the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, the Center for Mind and Brain, the Center for Regional Change, and the McLaughlin Natural Reserve.

Notable Alumni

Notable University of California, Davis alumni include NASA astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Stephen K. Robinson; game designer and writer Chris Crawford; comedian Hasan Minhaj; music producer DJ Shadow; screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely; authors Max Schott and James Van Pelt; John Watson, CEO of Chevron; and Diane Bryant, COO of Google Cloud.