University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine, known as UCI or UC Irvine, is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California, in the United States. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system and was founded in 1965. It offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and professional degrees, and in the fall of 2024 roughly 30,000 undergraduates and 7,000 graduate students were enrolled. It is classified as an R1 doctoral university with very high research activity and became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996. The university runs the UC Irvine Medical Center and an arboretum, and set up the first Earth System Science Department in the United States. In sociology it is the academic home of Ruben G. Rumbaut, a leading scholar of immigration and refugee resettlement.