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See which careers fit your traits — based on what 444+ UC Riverside alumni actually went on to do.

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What UC Riverside grads actually do

Based on 444 notable UC Riverside alumni with Wikipedia pages. Data: Wikidata (CC0).

writer
67
university teacher
54
journalist
33
novelist
27
researcher
22
screenwriter
21
film director
20
actor
20
computer scientist
20
historian
17
poet
16
astronomer
16

Notable UC Riverside alumni

Michael Goldberg
Michael Goldberg
music journalist · journalist
Maya Rudolph
Maya Rudolph
comedian · singer
Hank Risan
Hank Risan
inventor
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cary Joji Fukunaga
screenwriter · film director
David A. Sonnenfeld
David A. Sonnenfeld
sociologist
Zach Dawes
Zach Dawes
guitarist
Gary Young
Gary Young
poet
James B. McClintock
James B. McClintock
biologist · marine biologist

Salary outlook for top UC Riverside career paths

National median annual wage (BLS Occupational Employment Statistics).

writer
10th–90th percentile: $40,900$148,240
$73,690
median / yr
journalist
10th–90th percentile: $31,550$160,360
$57,500
median / yr
novelist
10th–90th percentile: $40,900$148,240
$73,690
median / yr
researcher
10th–90th percentile: $59,010$158,160
$95,890
median / yr
film director
10th–90th percentile: $42,040$174,540
$82,510
median / yr
computer scientist
10th–90th percentile: $81,450$233,110
$145,080
median / yr

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About UC Riverside

The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located in Monterey Bay, on the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the main campus lies on 2,001 acres (810 ha) of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. As of Fall 2024, its ten residential colleges enroll some 17,940 undergraduate and 1,998 graduate students. Satellite facilities in other Santa Cruz locations include the Coastal Science Campus and the Westside Research Park and the Silicon Valley Center in Santa Clara, along with administrative control of the Lick Observatory near San Jose in the Diablo Range and the Keck Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Founded in 1965, UC Santa Cruz is a collegiate university, using a residential college system consisting of ten small colleges that were established as a variation of the Oxbridge university system. Among the faculty are Nobel Prize laureates, Rhodes Scholars, Fulbright Scholars, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences recipients, 16 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 33 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 46 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. UC Santa Cruz alumni include 13 Pulitzer Prizes for 11 recipients, 7 MacArthur 'genius' Award fellows, Rhodes Scholars, Fulbright Scholars, and Marshall Scholars, amongst others. UC Santa Cruz is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The university is also a member of the Association of American Universities.

Source: Wikipedia · Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

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