About CNAS

The College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) is home to world-renowned scholars pursuing research that deepens our knowledge of the universe we live in and improves the quality of life for inhabitants of the state, the nation, and the world. Central to this research is educating the students who come to CNAS to learn science, and who leave with an integrated grasp of how they can change the world. These students, and the faculty who teach them, benefit from a structure that is unique among land-grant colleges: CNAS’s 13 departments encompass the life, physical, mathematical, and agricultural sciences. This structure encourages an extraordinary degree of collaboration, reflected in the interdisciplinary research centers and the many cooperatively taught degree programs. Modern science is team based, and CNAS embodies that principle in everything it teaches and practices.

Our Mission

To transform lives through discovery, communication, translation, application, and preservation of knowledge.

Facts and Figures

College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Fall 2020

Undergraduate students  (2021)     6,728
Graduate students    (2021) 926
Ladder-rank & emeritus faculty members     443
Other researchers     487
Permanent staff     208
Alumni     30,149
Research grant expenditures     $58M
Nobel Laureates 2
Members of the National Academy of Sciences 12
Academic Departments 13
Research institutes, centers, and collections 20
Contract and grant awards     $97M
Agricultural Operations Station

2 stations, 1,020 acres

Agricultural Operations Plant Species/Varieties 50+
Natural Reserves 8 reserves, 28,000 acres of land

 

General UCR Stats

University of California, Riverside, Fall 2021

Total Students Enrolled 26,847 (100%)
Undergraduates 22,866 (85.2%)
Graduates 3,981 (14.8%)
First-generation Undergraduates 12,477 (46.5%)
Pell Grant Recipients 11,204 (41.7%)

 

UCR Undergraduate Enrollment

University of California, Riverside, Fall 2021

Total 22,866 (100%)
African/African-American 782 (2.9%)
Asian/Asian-American 8,449 (31.5%)
Chicano and Latino 10,135 (37.8%)
Native American or Alaskan Native     24 (<1%)
White/Caucasian 3,442 (12.8%)
International 2,115 (7.9%)
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 30 (<1%)
Two or more races     1,458 (5.4%)
Unknown 412  (1.5%)

 

UCR Transfer Student Enrollment

University of California, Riverside, Fall 2021

Total Applicants 14,744 (100%)
Admitted 9,318 (63%)

 

1.   Data are updated every Spring.
2.   Totals may not add to 100% due to rounding.

Administration

Dean Kathryn E. Uhrich, Ph.D.
Agriculture and Natural Resources         Divisional Dean 
Isgouhi Kaloshian, Ph.D.
Life Sciences         Divisional Dean 
Katherine Borkovich Ph.D.
Physical Sciences and Mathematics     Divisional Dean
Stefano Vidussi, Ph.D.
Student Academic Affairs     Divisional Dean 
Constance Nugent, Ph.D.
Financial & Administrative Affairs     Executive Assistant Dean &
 CFAO Jennifer Farias, M.B.A.

 

Dean Kathryn E. Uhrich

Organizational Structure
(CNAS org charts)

 

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