1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/California, University of

CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF (see ). During the decade 1910-20 the university of California grew to such an extent that in the latter year it stood foremost in number of students among American universities. In the degree-giving departments on Nov. 1 1920 the enrolment was as follows: at Berkeley, in the schools of Letters and Science, Engineering, Agriculture, Chemistry, Commerce, Jurisprudence, Medicine (part), Education and Architecture, 8,726 undergraduates, of whom 4,757 were men and 3, 969 women; and 943 graduates, of whom 484 were men and 459 women; at San Francisco, in the Hastings School of Law, schools of Medicine (part), Dentistry, Pharmacy, Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, 656 students; at Los Angeles, in the southern branch (instruction in lower division), 872 students, and in the teachers' curricula, 1,108 students; making a total, less duplicates, of 11,197. There were in the university extension division courses 13,792; in the agricultural extension courses 5,625; in the summer session and intersession courses 6,436, and on the University of California Farm 530, making a grand total, less duplicates, of 37,480.

(D. P. B.)