California research institutions

This page reports what the sources say. It is not a position of the consortium.

Each row is one California college or university with a 2025 Research Activity Designation of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The last three rows are the three U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories in California. Each institution has an entity page. A row states only what its sources say. A blank cell means that no cited source states the fact.

• Designation: the 2025 Research Activity Designation as the Carnegie 2025 Public Data File (web) prints it, or National laboratory.
• Control: Public or Private from the Carnegie file. Private stands for Carnegie’s “Private not-for-profit”. Federal is for a DOE laboratory.
• City: the city that the Carnegie file or the laboratory’s source gives.
• California region: the Jobs First region that page 7 of the CJF Investment Playbook 2025 (web) gives for the institution’s county.
• Latitude and Longitude: decimal degrees, as the source prints them. A college or university gets its county, latitude and longitude from the IPEDS HD2025 Directory information (web) file. The match uses the IPEDS unit ID in the Carnegie file. For a laboratory, they come from its record in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Facility Registry Service (FRS).
• Link: the institution’s own address, when a cited source carries it. The Carnegie file gives no addresses.

The rows are in four groups, in this order: Research 1 (14), Research 2 (16), Research Colleges and Universities (24) and the national laboratories (3). The rows in each group are in alphabetical order.

Notes

• The Carnegie file lists 424 California institutions. 370 of them have no research designation (Carnegie 2025 Public Data File (web)).
• The Carnegie file gives the Naval Postgraduate School the control value “Public” (Carnegie 2025 Public Data File (web)).
• The three laboratories are not in the Carnegie file. Each laboratory row cites the laboratory’s own source page in this library and its EPA FRS record.
• All 54 Carnegie unit IDs are in the IPEDS HD2025 file, with the same name and city (IPEDS HD2025 Directory information (web)).
• The FRS record for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gives 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, in Alameda County. Other FRS records are for its Site 300 near Tracy, in San Joaquin County (EPA FRS facility record LLNL (web)).
• Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC operates Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory “for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration” (LLNL Tuolumne (web)). The DOE Office of Science supports Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL 2024 US Data Center Energy Usage Report). Stanford University operates SLAC “for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science” (SLAC Genesis Mission phase II projects (web)).

🔍 Gap: the Carnegie file gives no web addresses, so Link is blank in the 54 Carnegie rows. The LBNL report gives no laboratory address. The LLNL page gives only an http:// address.