University of California

California, University of, large U.S. state university system, founded 1868. It is housed on 9 campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz). It comprises a library with more than 10 million items, the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at La Jolla, and the Lick Observatory at Mt. Hamilton.

See also: California.