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transparent spacing image New Student Handbook: 2008 Edition University of California, Irvine



A Place of Reputation


A Place of Reputation

 

  • In the U.S. News & World Report annual college survey, UC Irvine is ranked among the top 50 universities nationally, and ranks tenth among all public universities.

  • UC Irvine is one of 63 universities nationally elected to membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities.

  • UC Irvine is the first public university with faculty receiving two Nobel prizes in two different fields -- chemistry and physics -- in the same year (1995).

  • UC Irvine is ranked in the nation's top 10 for information technology education by eWeek, a national high-tech magazine. UC Irvine is one of only two public universities given this distinction.

  • UC Irvine was the university with the greatest impact on geoscience research in the mid-1990s, according to the Institute for Scientific Information, a national publisher of research databases.

  • . . . and more impressive accomplishments!
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