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University of California - Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, CA

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How Colleges Spend Money

The graph below shows the Administrative Cost Per Student at University of California - Santa Cruz. This is a measure of expenditures per student for day-today executive operations of the institution, not including student services or academic management.

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FIRE Speech Rating

University of California - Santa Cruz earns a Yellow speech code rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

A yellow light institution maintains policies that could be interpreted to suppress protected speech or policies that, while clearly restricting freedom of speech, restrict relatively narrow categories of speech.

FIRE evaluates colleges and universities' "speech codes," or written free speech policies, for how well they protect students' freedom of speech. ACTA believes an institution's commitment to free expression correlates with its commitment to academic excellence, facilitated through the free exchange of ideas.

"As a preeminent public research university, UC Santa Cruz transforms California and the world through groundbreaking discoveries, creative scholarship, public service, and an inclusive student-centered learning environment that empowers students to become engaged global leaders." [Source]

Curriculum last evaluated: 2/12/2025

2021-22 enrollment and tuition data, and four-year graduation rates for first-time, full-time freshmen who enrolled in Fall 2012, are derived from the National Center for Education Statistics’ College Navigator.