unitid 110644 · Davis, CA · public 4-year · suburb (small)
University of California-Davis
American public research university
- founded
- 1905
- enrollment 2023
- 42,046
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- ucdavis.edu
The University of California, Davis is a public land-grant research university in the Davis, California area, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institution was first founded as an agricultural branch of the system in 1905 and became the sixth campus of the University of California in 1959. wikipedia rev 1363613907 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
42%
7th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
32,253
96th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
31%
undergrads on Pell grants
48th pctl among public 4-years
completion
86%
finish within 150% time
97th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$41,238
100th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$14,741
after aid, aided students
64th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$80,838
after entry, Title IV students
97th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$13,000
23rd pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $9,211 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k36%
- 30-48k20%
- 48-75k17%
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $33,784
- First-generation students
- 41%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $16,774
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 6.2× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research and Experimental Psychology. | 958 | $62,401 | $13,219 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 502 | — | $12,144 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 456 | — | — |
| Biology, General. | 430 | $66,924 | $13,000 |
| Economics. | 417 | $86,559 | $13,000 |
| Computer Science. | 411 | — | — |
| Neurobiology and Neurosciences. | 394 | $67,848 | $13,000 |
| Political Science and Government. | 336 | $65,407 | $14,250 |
| Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services. | 335 | — | — |
| Animal Sciences. | 304 | $54,122 | $13,625 |
| Communication and Media Studies. | 288 | $75,758 | $13,000 |
| Sociology. | 287 | $59,319 | $12,600 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 4,262 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,173) · university teacher (336) · basketball player (168) · computer scientist (95) · politician (79) · writer (77) · biologist (72) · economist (64)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Charles M. Rice Medicine 2020
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Dian Fossey
77 wikis · Public domain
Charles M. Rice
53 wikis · Public domain
Tracy Caldwell Dyson
40 wikis · Public domain
Peter Snell
38 wikis · Public domain
Aria Giovanni
36 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.5
Stephen Robinson
29 wikis · Public domain
Karen Joy Fowler
25 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Jackie Speier
24 wikis · Public domain
Ann Veneman
24 wikis · Public domain
Bonnie L. Bassler
24 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Cathy Carr
23 wikis · Public domain
Hasan Minhaj
23 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kimberly Guilfoyle
22 wikis · Public domain
Also recorded: Bruce Nauman, Ben Sharpsteen.
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363613907), CC BY-SA 4.0.