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2025 annual report

About Enrollment Management 

Together, the Enrollment Management units empower students throughout their educational journeys to achieve their chosen future.

2025 Year in Review

  • Last fall, Undergraduate Admissions enrolled 9,466 new undergraduates with its highest-ever numbers of both Latinx and African American new undergraduates
  • New undergraduates come from 54 of California’s 58 counties, 45 states and U.S. territories and 54 countries
  • 40.3% are first-generation students
  • Financial Aid and Scholarships awarded $878 million in financial aid for over 29,000 students
  • As custodian of student records, the Office of the University Registrar evaluated 22,429 transcripts, scheduled 24,033 course sections and processed 1,000 course proposals.
  • For the third year in a row, a record high number of students applied to UC Davis, with more than 120,000 applicants for 2026 enrollment 

Enrollment Management is home to these departments that provide student services from early outreach through graduation:

  • Office of the Vice Provost of Enrollment Management
  • Undergraduate Admissions
  • Financial Aid and Scholarships
  • Office of the University Registrar

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2025 highlights

Students sit at round tables and hold up brightly colored number cards during an interactive activity at a leadership conference hosted by UC Davis EAOP.

Five decades of success

  • by Hareemah Amin
The Early Academic Outreach Program, known as EAOP, turns 50 this year — and it plans to celebrate half a century of helping thousands of California students prepare for college with a statewide bash hosted by UC Davis Feb. 28.
Undergraduate researcher wears blue gloves and uses a pipette to transfer liquid into a tray beside a large aquarium filled with green aquatic plants.

Fishing for answers and testing the waters

  • by Isabella Beristain
Mikaila Hishaw, a fourth-year marine and coastal science major from Tucson, Arizona, arrived at UC Davis with plans to become a veterinarian. She soon discovered that research offered not just a new way to work with animals but also an avenue to explore her curiosity beyond the classroom.
Undergraduate researcher in a white lab coat and blue gloves uses a pipette to transfer liquid into a small tube while they work at a laboratory bench.

Regeneration for the next generation

  • by Hareemah Amin
Fourth-year biological sciences major and Barry Goldwater Scholar recipient Azucena Virgen studies the regenerative biology of Hydra — a freshwater organism known for its ability to regrow entire body parts — at the UC Davis Juliano Lab. What began as a fascination in a high school biology class in her hometown of Woodland, California, grew into a long-term goal to lead a research lab and mentor future scientists.
Undergraduate researcher wears safety goggles and gloves pours red liquid into a spray bottle labeled “70% EtOH Flammable” inside a laboratory workspace with shelves and equipment in the background.

Medical research shaped by community advocacy

  • by Isabella Beristain
UC Davis fourth-year neurobiology, physiology and behavior major Rogelio Castillo did not expect undergraduate research to open a path for him to create change in his community.  His family’s past experiences with rushed and impersonal medical care led him to turn to science to ask the questions that improve both health outcomes and quality of patient-provider relationships.
Two students in lab coats and safety goggles examine a green display on a computer screen.

Developing apps to investigate neurological disorders

  • by Ginger M Welsh
Iliya Voytsyshyn, a fourth-year systems and synthetic biology major from Ukraine, entered UC Davis with plans to study cancer. That initial goal grew into a fascination with tools that fuse biology, systems design and gene editing to reengineer cells.
Two hands hold a mobile device displaying the website for the UC Davis viewbook against a blurred background of a grassy area.

Undergraduate Admissions launches digital viewbook

  • by Jenny Carrick

UC Davis Undergraduate Admissions launched its first-ever virtual viewbook this summer, moving the traditional publication to the digital age, better meeting the needs of high school and community college students.

As UC Davis admissions advisors meet with prospective students at college fairs throughout California and the country this fall, they will carry lightweight tabletop displays and cards that share links to the online viewbook instead of heavy, magazine-style booklets.

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