The University of California’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (UC AGEP) is a partnership among the ten campuses of the University of California and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal of this partnership is to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students who acquire doctoral degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and ultimately enter the professoriate.

To achieve this goal, UC AGEP has created a structured series of program initiatives that span the pathway to the professoriate.