Description Talk about your prime real estate -- this University of California campus overlooks the beach town of Santa Cruz, at the northern end of Monterey Bay. The university enrolls about 15,000 students and offers more than 60 undergraduate majors and about 30 graduate degrees. UC Santa Cruz's campus is arranged in a cluster, with 10 colleges for undergraduates circling central facilities for the sciences, engineering, the student bookstore and commons, and administration. Each college has a different specialty, and each has its own apartments and/or residence halls. UC Santa Cruz has a research center in nearby Silicon Valley to promote ties with high-tech companies. The school was founded in 1965.
UC Santa Cruz has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,478 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The UC Santa Cruz employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 84% of employees would recommend working at UC Santa Cruz to a friend. This is based on 1,495 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
79% of job seekers rate their interview experience at UC Santa Cruz as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at UC Santa Cruz.