The UC Santa Cruz Budget – A Bird's Eye View - Office of Planning ...

Facts and FiguresAbout The University of California, Santa CruzSince its inception, UCSC has been dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education, graduate studies, and research. UCSC’s2005-06 budgeted enrollment is 15,120 FTE students (three quarter average), and the campus anticipates growth to 17,215 FTE by2010-11. Enrollment growth will be accommodated in the traditional fall-winter-spring quarters, as well as during the summer and inoff-campus venues such as Education Abroad and UCDC. Currently, about 90 percent of the students are undergraduates enrolledin one or more of UCSC’s 61 majors. A campus priority is to increase the proportion of graduate students to about 15% of the totalenrollments within the decade.UCSC’s fall 2005 enrollment was 15,001 students (14,695 on campus and 306 students in off campus programs). This includes13,600 undergraduates and 1,401 graduate students. The budgeted average ratio of student FTE to faculty FTE was 19.3 to 1 in2005-06.The UCSC main campus consists of approximately 2,000 acres of land overlooking Monterey Bay. Its 553 buildings (includingresidential facilities) provide approximately 5.2 million gross square feet of space. The campus has research facilities located onMonterey Bay (such as Long Marine Lab and the Monterey Bay Education Science and Technology Center) and provides instructionthroughout the Monterey Bay area and in Silicon Valley via UC Santa Cruz Extension. UCSC also manages a University AffiliatedResearch Center (UARC) under a 5-year $120 million contract with NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.The campus, with more than 10,975 individuals (faculty, staff, and students) employed at some time during 2004-05 (representing anaverage of 1,395 full-time equivalent academic and 3,153 full -time equivalent non-academic staff) is the largest single employer inSanta Cruz County. In 2004-05, UCSC generated between $800 million and close to $1 billion in economic activity within Santa CruzCounty. This supported approximately 12,000 jobs in the County -- 4,000 university jobs and another 8,000 jobs in the localcommunity. In addition, UCSC faculty, staff and students contribute approximately one million hours of community service, whichrepresents an economic value of more than $12 million to the local economy.