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Schools of UCIUC Irvine’s education and research missions are fulfilled in its undergraduate and graduate academic units. Organized by disciplines in schools, departments, and programs, the academic structure of UCI brings students, faculty, and staff into close proximity for research opportunities, mentoring, academic advising, and student services. Please read below for more information about the Schools of UCI. Claire Trevor School of the Arts
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| • Acting • Advertising • Animation • Arts Administration • Art Therapy Broadcasting • Choreography • Composition • Conducting, Conservation or Restoration • Consulting • Criticism • Curating • Digital Arts Production • Direction • Environmental Design • Instrument Repair or Tuning • Interior or Industrial Design • Journalism • Law |
• Librarianship • Lighting • Marketing • Medical Illustration • Performance • Photography • Physical Fitness • Printing • Production • Publicity • Public Relations • Publishing • Set, Stage or Costume Design • Stage Management • Teaching • Tourism • Visual Resources Management • Writing |
School of Biological Sciences
www.bio.uci.edu
The School of Biological Sciences is one of the campus’s larger academic units, with 4,920 students (4,500 undergraduate and 420 graduate). Faculty research areas include neural plasticity and behavior (which in part encompasses the development of the nervous system, memory, response to injury, and degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s); the nature of cell-cell interactions; pattern formation; the elucidation of ecological conditions and evolutionary histories that have been the driving forces in organism design and functional diversity; the organization and expression of genes; biomolecular structure; molecular pathogenesis; human mitochondrial genetics; and cell biology.
Some possible careers with a degree from the School of Biological Sciences:
| • Bioanalysis • Biochemistry • Biomedical Engineering • Cell Biology • Chiropractic Medicine • Dentistry • Developmental Biology • Dietetics • Environmental Management • Forestry • Genetic Engineering • Health Administration • Industrial Hygiene • Marine Biology • Medical Technology • Medicine, Microbiology • Nurse Practitioner • Occupational Therapy |
• Oceanography • Optometry • Osteopathy • Plant Biology • Pharmacology • Pharmacy • Physicians’ Assistant • Physical Therapy • Podiatry • Public Health • Quality Control • Research • Sales • Speech Pathology • Teaching • Technical Writing and Editing • Veterinary Medicine |
The Paul Merage School of Business
merage.uci.edu
The Paul Merage School of Business faculty research and teach in the fields of accounting, economics, finance, health care management, information systems, marketing, operations and decision technologies, organization management, public policy, real estate and strategy. Based on a thematic approach throughout the curriculum, the school focuses on three critical drivers of business growth: strategic innovation, information technology, and analytic decision making. The Merage School enrolls 320 undergraduates, 220 students in the M.B.A. and Ph.D. programs, and 610 in the Fully Employed M.B.A, Executive M.B.A., and Health Care Executive M.B.A. programs.
Department of Education
www.gse.uci.edu
The Department of Education offers graduate degree and credential programs for teachers and administrators in California’s public elementary and secondary schools and an undergraduate minor in Educational Studies. The Department integrates the themes of Learning, Cognition, and Development; Social Context and Educational Policy; and Language, Literacy, and Technology across its programs. The faculty is multidisciplinary; their scholarly work arises from the common belief that education environments, both in and out of school, are the locus of change in the quality of life and the availability of productive life choices for learners of all ages.
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
www.eng.uci.edu
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, with 3,125 students (2,420 undergraduate, 705 graduate), focuses on the analysis and design of physical systems applying modern scientific principles to the development of technology for society. The major research disciplines are aerospace, biochemical, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, materials science, and mechanical engineering. Research areas include biochemical and bioreactor engineering, earthquake engineering, water resources, transportation, parallel and distributed computer systems, intelligent systems and neural networks, image and signal processing, opto-electronic devices and materials, high-frequency devices and systems, integrated micro and nanoscale systems, fuel cell technology, fluid mechanics, combustion and jet propulsion, materials processing, robotics, and modern control theory.
Some possible careers with a degree from The Henry Samueli School of Engineering:
| • Aerospace • Biochemical • Biomedical • Biotechnology • Chemical Engineering • Communications • Computer Architecture • Computer Engineering • Computer Software • Control Systems • Digital Signal Processing • Earthquake Safety • Electric Power • Electronics • Electro-optics • Environmental Control • Environmental Engineering • Flood Control |
• Geotechnical, High-Speed Image Processing • Hydraulics • High-Frequency Devices and Systems • Land Development and Urban Planning • Manufacturing Engineering • Materials • Process Control • Propulsion and Power • Public Works • Reliability • Robotics • Structures • Traffic • Transportation • Water Resources • Water Supply |
School of Humanities
www.humanities.uci.edu
The School of Humanities faculty has been repeatedly honored for their teaching and scholarly excellence. Included in the faculty’s more than 100 research specialties are literary criticism, film studies, media studies, philosophical analysis, historical inquiry, art history, and East Asian languages and literatures. Faculty also participate in programs that cut across disciplinary boundaries such as African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Religious Studies, and Women’s Studies. At the core of the educational mission of the humanities is imparting to students tools of analysis that will help them interpret, understand, describe, and explain the world around them. The school has 2,510 students, including 2,090 undergraduate and 420 graduate.
Some possible careers with a degree from the School of Humanities:
| • Advertising • Banking • Broadcasting • Business • Counseling • Communications • Diplomacy • Education • Film and Television • Foreign Service • Government Service • Human Resources • Insurance • International Relations • Journalism • Law • Library Science |
• Management or Administration • Marketing • Personnel • Politics • Public Administration • Public Relations • Publicity • Publishing • Research • Retail Sales • Screenwriting • Social Welfare • Teaching • Technical Writing • Tourism • Translating or Interpreting • Writing |
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
www.ics.uci.edu
The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) has 1,150 students (800 undergraduate and 350 graduate). Faculty are actively engaged in research and teaching in the design of algorithms and data structures; embedded computer systems; networked and distributed systems; systems software; mobile computing; artificial intelligence; data mining; multimedia; databases and information retrieval; computer graphics and visualization; large-scale data analysis; biomedical informatics and computational biology; urban crisis response; Internet and ubiquitous computing; advanced technology for software and information systems; computer-supported cooperative work and human-computer interaction; digital arts and embodied interaction; managerial and social aspects of computing technology; statistics and statistical theory; and business information management.
Some possible careers with a degree from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences:
| • Applications Programming • Biomedical Computing • Business Information Management • Computer-Aided Design • Computer Animation • Computer Architecture • Computer Networks • Computer Simulation • Computer Systems Design • Databases • Information Systems • Design and Consulting • Embedded Systems |
• Management Information Systems • Multimedia Applications • Parallel and Distributed Systems • Software Design and Development • Software Management and Maintenance • Supercomputing • Systems Administration • Systems Analysis and Design • Systems Programming |
Interdisciplinary Studies
Interdisciplinary Studies programs provide students with opportunities to pursue subject areas which derive from the interaction of different disciplines such as Computer Science and Engineering, Civic and Community Engagement, Business Information Management, and Transportation Science.
School of Law
www.law.uci.edu
The School of Law, established by the University of California Board of Regents in November 2006, welcomed its inaugural class of students in fall 2009. The first public law school to open in California in 40 years, the school offers the Juris Doctor (J.D.). Students will receive an education that includes traditional areas of legal doctrine but in an innovative context designed to prepare them for practice in the twenty-first century. Planned joint-degree programs will connect legal education with the wide range of academic and professional opportunities of a major research university.
School of Medicine
www.som.uci.edu
Ranked as one of the top 50 U.S. medical schools for research by U.S. News & World Report, University of California, Irvine's School of Medicine is dedicated to advancing medical knowledge and clinical practice through scholarly research, physician education and high-quality care. The medical school nurtures the development of medical students, resident physicians and scholars in the clinical and basic sciences and supports the dissemination of research advances for the benefit of society.
Each year, the School of Medicine educates more than 400 medical students and trains more than 600 residents and fellows at UC Irvine Medical Center and affiliated institutions. There are 560 full-time and 1,300 volunteer faculty members involved in teaching, providing medical care and conducting research into the health challenges facing the 21st century. The school offers an M.D. degree, a combined M.D./M.B.A. program with The Paul Merage School of Business and a unique combined M.D./master's program called the Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC).
Program in Nursing Science
www.nursing.uci.edu
Nursing is interdisciplinary and collaborative in its art and its science. The body of knowledge that comprises nursing science includes application of knowledge from the biological, social, behaviorial and biomedical sciences.
Together with other health professionals, the professional nurse addresses health care needs of individuals, families, and groups from diverse backgrounds. Health care needs range across the health-illness continuum from health promotion and wellness to intervention, treatment, rehabilitation, restoration, and palliation in response to illness.
UC Irvine Nursing Science Program graduates are prepared for basic clinical and advanced practice roles as well as for educational, administrative and research positions across the healthcare delivery system and for faculty positions in academic institutions.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
www.pharmsci.uci.edu
UC Irvine's Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences offers interdisciplinary educational programs integrating concepts from fields as diverse as biology, chemistry, cell and molecular biology, chemical engineering, materials science, pharmaceutics, pharmacology and physiology. As a student in our department you will be an integral part of such explorations ... and the resulting discoveries.
Pharmaceutical scientists are rapidly changing the field of drug discovery and development. The graduates of this program are well qualified to seek employment in the public and private sectors, or to pursue graduate degrees such as Ph.D., M.D., or PharmD.
Our faculty includes world-renown scientists encompassing a variety of backgrounds with wide-ranging research programs that cover every facet of pharmaceutical research.
School of Physical Sciences
www.physsci.uci.edu
The School of Physical Sciences has a student body of 1,605 (1,115 undergraduate and 490 graduate). Researchers in the school are conducting investigations in atmospheric chemistry (including the discovery of the adverse impact of human-made chlorofluorocarbon compounds on the earth’s ozone layer), biogeochemistry and climate, synthetic chemistry, laser spectroscopy, condensed matter physics, elementary particle physics, plasma physics, and pure and applied mathematics and mathematical physics.
Some possible careers with a degree from the School of Physical Sciences:
| • Actuarial Science • Aerospace • Analytical Chemistry • Applied Physics and Chemistry • Astrophysics or Astronomy • Bioscience • Computers • Energy Science • Electronics • Engineering Applications • Environmental Science • Food Chemistry • Forensic Chemistry • Geoscience • Inorganic Chemistry • Instrumentation • Laboratory Science • Lasers |
• Materials Science • Medicine • Nuclear Science • Optical Devices • Organic Chemistry • Pharmacology • Physical Chemistry • Plasma Physics • Quality Control • Radiation Science • Radiology • Solid State Devices • Space Science • Statistics • Teaching |
Program in Public Health
http://publichealth.uci.edu/ph_docs/new_ugrad
The Program in Public Health offers a B.S. in Public Health Sciences and a B.A. in Public Health Policy that train students in multidisciplinary approaches to public health practice and research. The degrees explore both quantitative and qualitative aspects of public health at all levels of analysis. Upon graduation students have the opportunity, through selective employment or further education, to become the new generation of public health professionals prepared to face the emerging challenges to human health from a population perspective.
At the graduate level, the Program in Public Health offers a Masters of Public Health. The MPH curriculum educates students in the global dimensions of public health principles and prepares them to lead and work collaboratively on the assessment of health-risk factors and the management of prevention strategies.
In coming years, the Program in Public Health will expand to become a School of Public Health with accredited undergraduate, and Ph.D. programs and a dual degree M.D./M.P.H. program with the School of Medicine.
School of Social Ecology
www.soceco.uci.edu
The School of Social Ecology, a multidisciplinary unit established in 1970, is unique to UCI. The school’s central objectives are the application of scientific methods to the analysis and resolution of societal problems, and the development of theory and knowledge pertinent to social, behavioral, environmental, and legal phenomena. Among issues of long-standing interest are crime and justice in society, social influences on human development over the life cycle, urban and community planning, and the effects of the physical environment on health and behavior. There are 2,450 students in the school, including 2,160 undergraduate and 290 graduate.
Some possible careers with a degree from the School of Social Ecology:
| • Administration • Architecture • Biostatistics • Clinical Psychology • Corrections or Probation • Counseling • Education Support Services • Environmental Design • Environmental Planning and Consulting • Epidemiology • Government Service • Health Service • Hospital Administration • Housing Development |
• Law • Management or Administration Mental Health • Program Coordination • Psychology • Public Health Research • Public Relations • Real Estate or Development • Research and Research Design Social Service • Teaching • Urban Planning • Water Quality Control |
School of Social Sciences
www.socsci.uci.edu
The School of Social Sciences, with 6,590 students (6,220 undergraduate and 370 graduate), is the largest academic unit at UCI. The faculty, many of whom are nationally recognized, have expertise in a wide range of specific social science topics. Research areas include mathematical modeling of perception and cognitive processes; economic analysis of transportation; examination of the impact of society’s political system on its economy; study of social structure and values in different cultures through a rigorous scientific methodology; exploration of authority structures and inequality in society; and globalization and international affairs.
Some possible careers with a degree from the School of Social Sciences:
| • Banking • Correction or Probation • Counseling • Environmental Analysis • Finance • Foreign Service • Government Service • Health Services • Human Services • Industrial Relations • International Affairs • Labor Relations • Law |
• Library Science • Management or Administration • Marketing • Personnel • Psychology • Public Relations • Publishing • Real Estate • Research • Sales • Statistical Analysis • Teaching • Writing |
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