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TheUniversity of California, Riverside, is organized into three academic colleges, two professional schools, and two graduate schools. These units provide 81majorsand 52 minors, 48master's degreeprograms, and 42PhDprograms.[1]It is the only UC campus to offer undergraduate degrees inCreative WritingandPublic Policy, and one of only three UCs (along withBerkeleyandIrvine) to offer an undergraduate degree inBusiness Administration.[2]Additionally, UCR's doctoral program in the emerging field ofDance theory, founded in 1992, was the first program of its kind in the United States.[3]UCR's various academic units are as follows:

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  • College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences: CNAS dates back to 1907 when the Citrus Experiment Station was founded at the base of Riverside's Mt. Rubidoux. In 1958, the College of Agriculture was formed as the first research oriented, degree granting institution at UCR. The most popular majors areBiological Chemistry(747 undergraduates),Biology(801.5 undergraduates) and an interdepartmental Biological Sciences program (1,206.5 undergraduates).[4]According to theFaculty Scholarly Productivity Indexpublished by Academic Analytics in 2006, CNAS faculty ranked 1st insoil science, 8th inEnvironmental Sciences, 10th inPlant Pathology, and 10th inBotany.[6]
  • Graduate School of Education: UCR's Graduate School of Education, which founded in 1968, enrolls over two hundred graduate students.[4]Significant research centers include the California Educational Research Cooperative, a partnership between the School of Education and educators in local public school systems, and the Copernicus Project, dedicated to increasing the quality of science educators and education.[8]
  • School of Business: The School of Business, which established in 1970, offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in concentrations such as accounting, finance, management, and marketing. MBA, MPAc, and Master of Finance programs are under the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management.
  • School of Medicine: It established in 2008. The Division of Biomedical Sciences is an interdisciplinary division at UCR which administers a joint medical degree program withUCLA, the Thomas Haider program. The first two years of medical instruction are given on the UCR campus. Third- and fourth-year clerkships are served at UCLA and its affiliated medical centers. Students completing the program receive a Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical sciences from UCR and an M.D. degree from theDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Up to 24 of each year's applicants are chosen to attend medical school at UCR and UCLA.[10]The Division of Clinical Sciences houses the departments of family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, and psychiatry/neuroscience.
  • School of Public Policy: It established in 2015 and offers both undergraduate and graduate programs in public policy.
  • UCR Extension: UCR Extension, which established in 1956, offerscontinuing educationprograms to approximately 30,000 students from San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo and Eastern Los Angeles Counties every year. An additional 4,000 international students attend classes offered by UCR Extension's International Education Programs inGangnam,Seoul,South Korea, andBeijing,China.[11][12][13]The centers are run in partnership with local authorities and offer the same English language training programs as the main campus in Riverside. Students can transfer credits to UCR and are encouraged to continue their studies in California. UCR Extension also operates a "Global Nursing Review Program" that assists licensed nurses from other countries in gaining familiarity and proficiency with Western nursing practices, medical philosophy and culture.[14]

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  1. ^"2007-08 UCR General Catalog"(PDF). University of California, Riverside. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on October 25, 2007. RetrievedAugust 10,2007.
  2. ^"Introducing the University, 08-09"(PDF). University of California, Office of the President, Student Affairs. April 2007. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on February 22, 2007. RetrievedAugust 10,2007.
  3. ^La Rocco, Cynthia (September 23, 2007)."DANCE; Mind And Body At Yale".The New York Times. RetrievedOctober 10,2007.
  4. ^abcde"Fall 2006 Headcount Enrollment by College/School, Dept/Area & Major". University of California, Riverside, Office of Academic Planning & Budget. RetrievedAugust 10,2007.(Third link from the top.)
  5. ^"UC Riverside Boosts Collaborative Research with Powerful New SGI Altix Supercomputer"(Press release). SGI. February 2, 2007. RetrievedAugust 22,2007.
  6. ^ab"Top Research Universities in the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index". The Chronicle of Higher Education. RetrievedAugust 23,2007.
  7. ^Leiter, Brian (November 10, 2006)."The Philosophical Gourmet Report, overall rankings". Blackwell. Archived fromthe originalon August 13, 2010. RetrievedAugust 22,2007.
  8. ^"UCR Research". University of California, Riverside, Office of Research. RetrievedAugust 10,2007.
  9. ^"2007 Top Entrepreneural Programs: Business Schools". The Princeton Review. RetrievedOctober 10,2007.
  10. ^"UCR Biomed Prospective Medical Students page". RetrievedAugust 22,2007.
  11. ^"UCR Extension". UCR Extension. RetrievedApril 11,2011.
  12. ^"GNUCR homepage". University of California, Riverside, Extension. RetrievedApril 11,2011.
  13. ^"University of California, Riverside-Beijing International Education Center". University of California, Riverside, Extension. Archived fromthe originalon July 8, 2007. RetrievedAugust 10,2007.
  14. ^"Global Nursing Review Program". University of California, Riverside, Extension. Archived fromthe originalon July 8, 2007. RetrievedAugust 10,2007.
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