University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine
MottoFiat lux (Latin)
Motto in English
"Let there be light"
TypePublic land-grant research university
EstablishedOctober 4, 1965; 59 years ago (1965-10-04)[1]
Parent institution
University of California
AccreditationWSCUC
Academic affiliations
Endowment$795.89 million (2023)[2]
ChancellorHoward Gillman[3]
ProvostHal Stern[4]
Academic staff
5,596 (2019)[5]
Administrative staff
6,426 (2019)[5]
Students36,505 (2021)[6]
Undergraduates30,222 (2019)[6]
Postgraduates5,849 (2019)[6]
Location
Irvine
,
California
,
United States

33°38′44″N 117°50′33″W / 33.64556°N 117.84250°W / 33.64556; -117.84250
CampusLarge city[8], 1,527 acres (618 ha)[7]
Other campusesOrange
NewspaperNew University
ColorsBlue and gold[9]
   
NicknameAnteaters
Sporting affiliations
MascotPeter the Anteater
Websiteuci.edu

The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and professional degrees, and roughly 30,000 undergraduates and 6,000 graduate students were enrolled at UCI as of Fall 2019.[6] The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and had $523.7 million in research and development expenditures in 2021.[10][11] UCI became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996.[12]

The university administers the UC Irvine Medical Center, a large teaching hospital in Orange, and its affiliated health sciences system; the University of California, Irvine, Arboretum; and a portion of the University of California Natural Reserve System. UC Irvine set up the first Earth System Science Department in the United States.[13][14] The university was rated as one of the "Public Ivies" in 1985 and 2001 surveys comparing publicly funded universities the authors claimed provide an education comparable to the Ivy League.[15][16]

The UC Irvine Anteaters currently compete in the NCAA Division I as members of the Big West Conference.[a] During the early years of the school's existence, the teams played at the NCAA Division II level. The Anteaters have won 28 national championships in nine different team sports, 64 Anteaters have won individual national championships, and 53 Anteaters have competed in the Olympics, winning a total of 33 Olympic medals.[17] As of January 2022, the school has had 3 Nobel Prize laureates, 7 Pulitzer Prize winners, 6 MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipients, 37 Guggenheim Fellows, and 1 Turing Award winner affiliated with the university as alumni, faculty or researchers.[18][19][20]

  1. ^ "A brief history of the University of California". Academic Personnel and Programs. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  2. ^ As of June 30, 2023. "U.S. and Canadian 2023 NCSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2023 Endowment Market Value, Change in Market Value from FY22 to FY23, and FY23 Endowment Market Values Per Full-time Equivalent Student" (XLSX). National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). February 15, 2024. Archived from the original on May 23, 2024. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  3. ^ "Home | Office of the Chancellor | UCI". chancellor.uci.edu. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  4. ^ "Home | Office of the Provost | UCI". provost.uci.edu. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Total Non Student Employees Fall Quarter Headcount" (PDF). UC Irvine Office of Institutional Research. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 12, 2019. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  6. ^ a b c d "Enrollment | Office of Institutional Research | UCI". www.oir.uci.edu. Archived from the original on August 15, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
  7. ^ "University of California Annual Financial Report 18/19" (PDF). University of California. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 23, 2020. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
  8. ^ "IPEDS-University of California-Irvine".
  9. ^ "Color Palette // Brand // UCI". brand.uci.edu. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
  10. ^ "Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup". carnegieclassifications.iu.edu. Center for Postsecondary Education. Archived from the original on July 20, 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  11. ^ "Rankings by total R&D expenditures". Archived from the original on January 13, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  12. ^ "Member Institutions and Years of Admission". Association of American Universities. 2011.
  13. ^ "Remarks by the President of US at University of California-Irvine Commencement Ceremony 2014". whitehouse.gov. June 14, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2016 – via National Archives.
  14. ^ "President Obama Speaks on Climate Change at UC Irvine Commencement Ceremony". whitehouse.gov. June 16, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2016 – via National Archives.
  15. ^ Moll, Richard (1985). Public Ivys: A Guide to America's best public undergraduate colleges and universities. ISBN 9780670582051.
  16. ^ Greene, Howard R.; Greene, Matthew W. (2001). The public ivies: America's flagship public universities (1st ed.). New York: Cliff Street Books. ISBN 978-0060934590.
  17. ^ "Olympians | UCI Special Collections & Archives". special.lib.uci.edu. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
  18. ^ "Notable Alumni".
  19. ^ "Faculty Awards and Honors".
  20. ^ "Richard W. Hamming". A. M. Turing Award Laureates. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved July 26, 2023.


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