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 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.
