More than 100 world-class professors have answered the call to California's newest research university.  Faculty members are working in cutting-edge areas such as sustainable energy, the effects of climate change on natural systems in the Sierra Nevada, cancer treatments, antibiotic resistance, genomics, nanotechnology, language acquisition and integrating mathematics and computing with other sciences. 

Explore the graduate degrees UC Merced offers and learn how you can become part of our growing campus community!

Graduate Degrees Offered

• Applied Mathematics
  
• Biological Engineering and Small-scale Technologies
• Chemistry and Chemical Biology
• Cognitive and Information Sciences
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Environmental Systems
• Mechanical Engineering
• Physics 
  
• Psychological Sciences
• Quantitative and Systems Biology
• Social Sciences
• World Cultures