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Eleanor Roosevelt College (ERC) is one of the seven undergraduate colleges at the University of California, San Diego. Founded in 1988, ERC currently has 5,000 undergraduate students enrolled in all majors at UCSD. As with the other colleges at UC San Diego, ERC is led by its own provost and has deans of student affairs, residence life, academic advising, and a director of a general education writing program, the Making of the Modern World... The college system at UC San Diego combines the intimacy of a small institution with the intellectual breadth and resources of a large research university. Founded in 1988 as UC San Diego's Fifth College, Eleanor Roosevelt College was named in 1994 for the former first lady, delegate to the United Nations, chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, and member of the Peace Corps Advisory Council.

Primary location: La Jolla United States