The University of California is a system of 10 campuses, six academic health centers and three affiliated national laboratories.

The Office of the President, located in Oakland CA, is the University’s headquarters.

UCOP supports campuses and students through systemwide funding and programs. It manages the University’s multi-billion-dollar operations and investments. It oversees academic health centers and national labs. It provides centralized labor relations and legal services. And it promotes the well-being of its diverse and large workforce through comprehensive health and welfare benefits and retirement programs.

The Office of the President coordinates activities that allow a complex and unique system to operate efficiently as one university, furthering its public interest, academic and research missions. It oversees and manages programs that serve the entire university system, allowing campuses to capture the savings and efficiencies that come from centralized operations.

• Outreach and Educational Partnerships: supports and helps UC sustain partnerships with K–20 public education segments, community-based organizations and the business sector. These collaborations advance college preparation, access and degree-completion for students from underserved backgrounds.
• Admissions: maintains UC's admissions process and portal. Partners with community colleges, high schools, and education groups through its Achieve UC program to reach thousands of California students each year with financial aid information, resources and encouragement to apply to the university.
• Enrollment and Financial Aid: oversees undergraduate admissions and enrollment, including developing and implementing undergraduate admissions policy and managing the UC undergraduate admissions application. Promotes access and affordability through UC’s graduate and undergraduate financial aid program, one of the strongest in the nation.
• Benefits and Compensation: develops and administers pay and benefits programs that support the recruitment and retention of UC’s faculty and staff and honor the contributions of UC’s retirees.
• Budget: manages fiscal operations and the University of California system’s annual budget.
• Human Resources: supports staff development and recruitment and employee relations, and develops and administers personnel policies and programs.
• Intellectual Property: collects patent and licensing revenues, pays expenses and distributes royalties.
• Investments: manages UC’s extensive investment portfolio, including campus endowment funds and the UC pension fund.
• Employee and Labor Relations: fosters employee engagement, negotiates and administers local and systemwide labor agreements, and provides multi-faceted support toward ensuring inclusive, diverse, collaborative and productive work environments across the UC system.
• Legal Services: provides legal services to the university, including representation, advice, research and training.
• UC Health: University of California Health comprises six academic health centers, 21 health professional schools, a Global Health Institute and systemwide services that improve the health of patients and the University’s students, faculty and employees.
• Student and Equity Affairs: facilitates efforts that foster equity, diversity and inclusion for students, staff and faculty across UC communities.
• Academic Success Initiatives: supports UC's educational equity and student success goals by bringing faculty expertise to bear on issues of access, equity and college completion.
• Institutional Research and Academic Planning: provides evidence-based analyses and reports that inform and shape strategic planning, institutional policy creation and revision, and decision support.
• Research and Innovation: strengthens research and innovation across UC by serving as a resource for UC researchers and administrators in research policy, funding for systemwide programs, and the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
• UC Advocacy: promotes the university’s interests in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., and with the public.