A panorama shot of the first buildings to go up at the UC Merced campus: the Library (left), classroom 1 (behind Library), central plant (red tower and parts behind tower), Science-Engineering buildings (in front of red tower), student and faculty housing and food service (wood structures in foreground on right). UC Merced will serve 1000 students in 2005, 2000 students in 2006, and up to 25,000 students by the 2020s.