UC Davis College of Letters and Science
38°32′25″N 121°44′57″W / 38.54028°N 121.74917°W[1]
Type | Public |
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Established | 1951 |
Parent institution | University of California, Davis |
Dean | Estella Atekwana |
Location | , , |
Website | lettersandscience |
The College of Letters and Science is the largest college within the University of California, Davis.
From 1905 to 1959, Davis was operated as an off-site unit of the University of California, Berkeley, meaning that it shared faculty members with Berkeley. Several of the college's departments date back to the beginning of undergraduate-level instruction at Davis in 1922, when they were initially formed as "divisions". In other words, they were off-site divisions of departments of various colleges at Berkeley.
In 1951, the College of Letters and Science at Davis was formed as a full-fledged college in its own right, and absorbed several existing divisions as its first departments, and in 1959, Davis achieved full administrative independence from Berkeley as a general campus of the UC system. Initially composed of 14 majors and 70 faculty members, the College of Letters and Science now has over 14,000 undergraduate students, 1,500 graduate students, 100,000 alumni, and 900 faculty, and offers more than 53 majors and 60 minors. The College of Letters and Science has over 55 departments and programs, 14 centers, labs, and museums, and received over 33 million dollars in research awards (2017–18).
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