UC Davis

If you want to grow grapes and make wine in Napa Valley or Sonoma County, you might want to swing by the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) first. The school, one of 10 University of California campuses, offers a wide variety of agricultural programs; its Viticulture and Enology department provides professional education for aspiring winemakers. Located between Sacramento and San Francisco, UC Davis also has colleges and professional schools in biology, engineering, education, law, business, medicine, and veterinary medicine, and it is recognized for its research programs. UC Davis enrolls more than 30,000, including about 6,000 graduate students, and it has a student-faculty ratio of 16:1. Mission: “The mission of UC Davis, as a comprehensive research university, is the generation, advancement, dissemination and application of knowledge to advancing the human condition throughout our communities and around the world.