University of California,
Irvine
The University
of California, Irvine was founded in 1965 and has a student population
of more than 25,000 students and over 10,000 faculty members and
staff. Situated in both Newport Beach and Irvine, UCI is in a fantastic
southern California location.
UC Irvine was ranked in the top 50 of public universities and ranked
ahead of UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara by U.S. News and World Reports.
The students of UCI are some of the brightest in the world, 3 of UCI
researchers have won Nobel Prizes. The majority of students at the
University are Asian/Asian American.
UCI is growing. Currently the University has several projects under
construction with around $1.3 billion of new building planned in the
next decade. The increase in construction is part of the a UCI master
plan to keep the University positioned as a first choice university
for college hopefully nationwide.
The academic program at UCI is large and covers numerous academic
disciplines. The most popular major at the University of Irvine, California
among freshman is a major in the School of Biological Sciences.
The campus
at UCI was designed much like the villages in Irvine, favoring large
open spaces and modernist/futurist and postmodern buildings. Many
of UCIs students live off campus with only 36% of the students living
in University housing.
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