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#5 Best Value College, The Princeton Review (2024)

Highest-rated public institution in California, The New York Times (2023)

Top 10 Public School in the nation, U.S. News & World Report (2023)

#9 Best Value among public universities, Forbes (2022)

Best Regional College, The Princeton Review (2018)

Best value, best undergraduate business program, best undergraduate engineering program, U.S. News & World Report

The Paul Merage School of Business is ranked #1 in the world for percentage of female faculty (47%).

#1 U.S. Institution in the Sustainable Campus Index, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, (2022)

#2 'Cool' School, Sierra (2021)

#7 Social Mobility, U.S. News & World Report (2022)

#1 Doing the Most for the American Dream, The New York Times (2015 and 2017)

#1 Campus for Beach Lovers, Money (2017)

#2 Healthiest College in the West, Greatist (2016)

#8 Best College for Transfer Students, Money (2018)

#9 Best College in America, Money (2022)

#16 among U.S. public colleges "that pay off the most in 2020," CNBC 

#3 for Diversity, The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education (based on factors including the percentage of Pell Grant recipients and the racial and ethnic diversity of students and staff; 2021) 

UC Irvine is federally designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI).

In 2021, UC Irvine became a First-Gen Forward Institute as part of the nation's first recognition program acknowledging higher education institutions for their commitment to first-generation student success. Learn more about first-gen resources.

#4 Best College for Students with Learning Disabilities. Learn more about UCI's Disability Services Center. (2021)

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

UC Irvine athletics teams have earned 28 national titles in nine sports, and 64 Anteaters have won individual national titles. 56 have competed in the Olympics.

UC Irvine is the fourth university in the world to receive the prestigious STARS Platinum rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

UC Irvine holds five Guinness world records: the largest dodgeball game, set in 2010. The largest water blaster fight, set in 2013. The largest game of capture the flag, set in 2015. The largest game of balloon tag, set in 2018. And the largest game of red light/green light, set in 2022.

A record 143,000 students sought admission to UCI for fall 2023.

Approximately, 88 languages are spoken, and 79 countries are represented within our student body.

UC Irvine is one of 65 universities in the U.S. and Canada elected to membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities.

UCI offers more than 85 undergraduate degree programs, as well as master’s programs; an M.D., Ed.D., Pharm.D., and J.D.; and a variety of Ph.D. programs.

The Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences is the only ICS school in the University of California system.

UC Irvine ranks among the top 5 U.S. universities in the number of undergraduate applications.

UC Irvine’s 200,000 graduates include leaders in the arts, sciences, business, and education. Among them are three Pulitzer Prize winners and the architect of the “HTTP/1.1” Internet protocol used worldwide.

UC Irvine has an annual economic impact on Orange County of $5 billion and is a significant contributor to the region’s talent-rich workforce.