University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States, and one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. It offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and professional degrees, and roughly 30,000 undergraduates and 7,000 graduate students were enrolled as of Fall 2024. The campus began operations on October 4, 1965 with 1,589 students, and at the time of the university's founding the current city of Irvine, incorporated in 1971, did not exist. UCI became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996, administers the UC Irvine Medical Center, and set up the first Earth System Science Department in the United States.