University of California, Riverside

The University of California, Riverside, known as UC Riverside or UCR, is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California, and one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. Its predecessor was founded in 1907 as the UC Citrus Experiment Station, which researched biological pest control and the use of growth regulators. The College of Letters and Science opened in 1954, the Regents declared it a general campus in 1959, and graduate students were admitted from 1961. The School of Medicine received preliminary accreditation in 2012 and enrolled its first class in 2013.