*** Welcome to piglix ***

University of California Irvine

University of California, Irvine
The University of California Irvine.svg
Motto Fiat lux (Latin)
Motto in English
Let there be light
Type Land-grant
Public research university
Established 1965
Endowment $498.2 million (2016)
Chancellor Howard Gillman
Provost Enrique Lavernia
Academic staff
2,685
Students 31,551 (2015)
Undergraduates 25,256 (2015)
Postgraduates 6,295 (2015)
Location Irvine, California, U.S.
33°38′44″N 117°50′33″W / 33.64556°N 117.84250°W / 33.64556; -117.84250Coordinates: 33°38′44″N 117°50′33″W / 33.64556°N 117.84250°W / 33.64556; -117.84250
Campus Suburban
1,526 acres (618 ha)
Newspaper New University
Colors Blue, Gold
         
Athletics NCAA Division IBig West
Nickname Anteaters
Mascot Peter the Anteater
Affiliations University of California
Association of American Universities
Big West Conference Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
Association of Pacific Rim Universities
Website www.uci.edu
Ucirvine logo.png
University rankings
National
ARWU 33
Forbes 162
U.S. News & World Report 39
Washington Monthly 35
Global
ARWU 58
QS 156
Times 98
U.S. News & World Report 65

USNWR graduate school rankings

Business 44
Part-time MBA 42
Education 25
Engineering 37
Law 28
Medicine: Primary Care 71
Medicine: Research 48
Nursing: Master's 82

USNWR departmental rankings

Biological Sciences 34
Chemistry 24
Organic 12
Computer Science 29
Earth Sciences 34
Economics 47
English 17
Literary Criticism and Theory 1
Fine Arts 33
History 34
Mathematics 41
Physics 29
Political Science 45
Psychology 36
Sociology 23

The University of California, Irvine (UCI, UC Irvine, or Irvine), is a public research university located in Irvine, California, United States, and one of the 10 campuses in the University of California (UC) system. UC Irvine offers 80 undergraduate degrees and 98 graduate and professional degrees. The university is designated as having very high research activity in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, and in fiscal year 2013 had $348 million in research and development expenditures according to the National Science Foundation. UC Irvine became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996, and is the youngest university to hold membership.

The university also administers the UC Irvine Medical Center, a large teaching hospital in Orange, and its affiliated health sciences system; the University of California, Irvine, Arboretum; and a portion of the University of California Natural Reserve System. UC Irvine set up the first Earth System Science Department in the United States.

UCI was one of three new UC campuses established in the 1960s to accommodate growing enrollments across the UC system. A site in Orange County was identified in 1959, and in the following year the Irvine Company sold the University of California 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land for one dollar to establish the new campus. President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicated the campus in 1964.


...
Wikipedia

...