UC Santa Cruz I believe is still on a quarter system. Each quarter class is a semester equivalent in terms of the number of contact hours in class, so students typically take one less class each quarter because of the greater hours in class. I am not sure if this would result in more electives. They don’t have a lot of engineering but what they have is very strong, especially in computer engineering and computer science. They are world leaders in computational biology, which comes out of their engineering division.