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Our Founding, Your Future

Since 1901, �鶹�� and Learn by Doing have been inextricably linked. Combining rigorous academics and real-world applications, Learn by Doing has guided and inspired hundreds of thousands of our students toward successful careers for well over a century — and can do the same for you well into your future.

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California Impact

Learn by Doing ensures you play an active role in helping solve some of California’s — and the world’s — most complex challenges: climate change, tech and humanity, space, the built environment, food and wine, and entrepreneurship, to name just a few. It also helps to ensure that when you graduate, both you and employers will agree with us that you are ready.

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Democracy Now

Digital Democracy, created at �鶹�� and operated in partnership with nonprofit newsroom CalMatters, recently won an Emmy for political reporting.

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Fighting Fire with Floods

An interdisciplinary team of �鶹�� researchers created an innovative guide to help communities reduce their wildfire risk.

Dive into their work

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Back to the Future

A biochemistry team is searching for the antibiotics of the future — by looking millions of years into the past.

Travel Through Time

Learn by Doing Leads the way

�鶹��’s six academic colleges offer more than 150 undergraduate majors and minors, as well as over 50 graduate programs. Learn by Doing unifies our colleges and animates the curriculum of each — because no matter the field of study, the best way to build new knowledge is to try it out for yourself.