UC Merced’s reputation as a world-class research university continues to grow, as the university rose to No. 3 among U.S. universities in the 2020 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings ...

UC Merced is the No. 1 university in the nation for social mobility, according to new college rankings. The Wall Street Journal recently teamed up with research partners College Pulse and Statista to ...

UC Merced is no stranger to innovation and disrupting traditional modes in higher education. Whether it is funding the university’s Merced 2020 Project through an unprecedented, award-winning ...

MERCED, Calif. -- A decade has passed since America's newest research university opened amid farmland in central California. And surprisingly little on the landscape has changed. Cows still graze ...

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- UC Merced's newest chancellor, Juan Sanchez Munoz, will become the school's first Hispanic leader when he takes over in July. Munoz' father once worked the fields of the ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

It’s graduation season, and that means proud family, friends and faculty will be in Merced this weekend to help students ...

Students walk along Scholars Lane at the University of California Merced campus on Nov. 4, 2022. (Photo by Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters and CatchLight Local) The Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe ...

It’s the third day of a three-day strike, and UC Merced custodian Bertha Perez is taking a break from a picket line at the university’s unremarkable entrance, an intersection with stop lights. Photos ...

The main entrance to the University of California, Merced in Merced, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016. Andrew Kuhn akuhn@mercedsun-star.com UC Merced is the No. 1 university in the nation for social ...