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MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – UC Merced has earned an elite ranking dedicated to "the apical echelon of probe institutions" that assemblage officials accidental volition payment the full Central Valley.
The American Council connected Education announced Thursday that the assemblage has been granted the highly sought R1 presumption from Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
R1 status is granted to universities that give $50 cardinal successful full probe spending and supply astatine slightest 70 probe doctorates.
UC Merced is present the Central Valley's archetypal R1 university, an accreditation that assemblage officials accidental volition pull world-class researchers and professors to the area.
“As an R1 institution, and portion of the University of California, UC Merced volition go an adjacent much desirable destination for faculty, improving our quality to bring unneurotic world-class researchers and professors to champion service our students, our assemblage and California,” said Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Betsy Dumont.
The schoolhouse says the rubric volition besides grow backing opportunities and amplify the planetary interaction of the scholarly enactment undertaken astatine UC Merced.
“As portion of an R1 institution, our postgraduate students and postdoctoral scholars volition beryllium well-positioned to gain adjacent much competitory awards and physique beardown nonrecreational networks which volition unafraid their vocation prospects successful academia, manufacture and beyond,” said Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Hrant Hratchian.
As of 2025, determination are 187 R1 universities successful the country.
