last updated 8 May 2025
UCD is ranked 1st in the nation for "diversity, inclusiveness and internationalization" in 2022 and 2023 in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings
UCs were banned from using race, sex, or ethnicity as criteria for admissions almost 30 years ago, but UCD Med School managed to *increase* its diversity in the decades that followed.
Read how they did it here:
How One Medical School Became Remarkably Diverse Without Considering Race, 2023
Supreme Court 1978
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 1978 Affirmative action Quotas are illegal.
The Court held in a closely divided decision that race could be one of the factors considered in choosing a diverse student body in university admissions decisions. The Court also held, however, that the use of quotas in such affirmative action programs was not permissible; thus the Univ. of California, Davis, medical school had, by maintaining a 16% minority quota, discriminated against Allan Bakke,. 1940 , a white applicant. The legal implications of the decision were clouded by the Court's division. Bakke had twice been rejected by the medical school, even though he had a higher grade point average than a number of minority candidates who were admitted. As a result of the decision, Bakke was admitted to the medical school and graduated in 1992.
Diversity and Inclusion | UC Davis 2025
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