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Fast Facts About UCI

The Princeton Review named UCI a 2009 Best College in the Western Region of the U.S. for excellence in academics.

For quality of educational experience and caliber of faculty, UCI consistently ranks among the nation's best public universities, and among the top 50 universities overall.

Election to the American Association of Universities (AAU), a group of 62 of the most distinguished research institutions, is indicative of UCI's stature in the academic community.

Three UC Irvine researchers have earned Nobel Prizes: F. Sherwood Rowland and Irwin Rose in chemistry and Frederick Reines in physics.

UCI offers more than 75 undergraduate degree programs, as well as over 50 master’s and 40 Ph.D. programs, and an M.D. program.

UCI ranks among the top U.S. universities in the number of undergraduate applications.

Opening its doors to its first students in Fall 2009, UCI’s School of Law will be the first public law school in California to open in more than 40 years.

The Paul Merage School of Business is ranked among the nations’ top business schools by U.S. News & World Report, Business Week, and the Financial Times.

UCI’s 111,000 graduates include leaders in the arts, sciences, business, education – all walks of life. Among them are three Pulitzer Prize winners and the architect of the “HTTP/1.1” Internet protocol used worldwide.

The UCI Libraries, the region’s largest information resource, also draw more than half of their 2 million-plus annual visitors from outside the campus community.

UCI teams have won 26 national sports championships, including the 2009 men’s volleyball national title. The University competes in Division I of the NCAA and is a member of the nine-school Big West Conference, as well as the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

UCI Olympic participants have won a total of 24 medals, including seven gold medals.
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