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!