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Bold Hearts. Brilliant Minds.

UCR students take part in an on-campus food truck festival, head to class, and engage in a lab.

54 Facts and Impacts

Cool Things You Should Know About UC Riverside

Since welcoming our first class in 1954, UC Riverside (UCR) has been home to inventors and innovators, creators and community leaders, and geniuses and groundbreakers. This is a university that recognizes students’ impressive accomplishments and vigorous drive, and keeps that same energy pumping as Highlanders work toward their university degrees.

UCR is proud to be home to students with bold hearts and brilliant minds who want to succeed and are excited to make a difference. Get to know more about UCR through these 54 Facts and Impacts — our academics, people, and student life — and find your place here too.

Engineering students work together in a lab.
Academics
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John Jennings, professor of media and cultural studies at UCR, poses in front of a building.
People
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UCR Students meeting on bikes outdoors on a Bike Friendly campus.
Student Life
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