University of California–Irvine

The University of California, Irvine is a public research university in Irvine, Orange County, California. It opened in 1965 as a general campus of the University of California on a planned site that had been ranchland. It grew into a full UC campus with undergraduate colleges, professional schools, and a medical center. It occupies a master-planned campus of more than 1,400 acres in suburban Orange County.

Units include the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, the Samueli School of Engineering, Medicine, Law, the Paul Merage School of Business, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and schools of biological, physical, and social sciences, humanities, education, nursing, and pharmacy. Graduate strength includes computer science, chemistry, biological sciences, engineering, law, and critical theory. The UCI Medical Center in Orange and the Beckman Laser Institute serve many students.

About 36,000 students enroll, including more than 6,000 graduate and professional students. International students form a large share of the graduate cohort and come from more than 80 countries. Chemists F. Sherwood Rowland and Irwin Rose, both Nobel laureates, were long-serving faculty. Alumni include computer scientist Roy Fielding, a principal author of the HTTP specification.

Graduate degrees include the Ph.D., academic and professional master's degrees, the M.D., J.D., and joint degrees. UC supervision combines a faculty advisor, a guidance committee, and coursework before candidacy. The campus uses the quarter system. Doctoral students in research fields are commonly supported by fellowships, research appointments, and teaching assistantships. Graduate housing and labs sit on the Irvine campus, with clinical work in nearby Orange.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of California–Irvine lists 140 graduate programs across 46 subjects: 63 master's programs and 72 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in biology, computer science and public health. University of California–Irvine holds rank 65 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.