Colleges (abbreviations)

4. The founder never visited the campus
5. First research institute in the US
8. The college next to o’block
10. The first public university in the United States
11. The college features a campus lagoon with a private beach
14. It houses the world's largest sanctuary for rare lemurs.
15. This university hosts the nation’s largest student-run musical
17. Landmark Supreme Court case, one of the most important in US history
19. The oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher education in the U.S.
20. The most applied to university in the US
21. The college without a traditional campus
23. Community college in Irvine

1. The place where Terence Tao earned his PhD
2. Third oldest institution in the US higher education system
3. Invented a “smoot,” a unit of measurement
6. Campus has a “statue of three lies” with 3 lies on the inscription
7. Manages NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)
8. Famously rejected Steven Spielberg
9. Home to over over 220,000 Eucalyptus trees
10. Often referred to as “Cal”
11. The only Ivy League school to qualify for the 2026 March Madness
12. Famously called the “Ivy League of the West”
13. Roger Federer gave a commencement speech
16. Has the Beer Bike tradition, where students alternate between chugging beer and riding a bike
18. Originally called King’s College, later used as a British military hospital
22. 2026 March Madness Winner