UCI’s Rankings on US News – Ninth in Top Public Universities
The big news for us is that UC Irvine ranked ninth among top public universities in the United States. In this article we give the undergraduate rankings, and the rankings in the main graduate programs. We also note that UC Irvine is ranked first in the NY Times College Access Index, and ranked 16th among more than 700 schools in Money Magazine.
In Money Magazine, the average time to graduation at UCI is 4.2 years, and the average student debt is $17,414. There is the Blue and Gold program that guarantees free tuition to any student whose family income is below $80,000 a year. Our acceptance rate is 37%, and the median SAT score is 1130, while the median ACT score is 24.
UCI has 25,256 undergraduates and 30,836 total enrollment. It has a 39% acceptance ratio. The student to faculty ratio is 19 to 1. However, 58.4% of classes have fewer than 20 students. Another 21% have between 20-49 students, and only 20.6% have 50 or more students. The four year graduation rate for students starting as freshmen is 70.3%, and the five year graduation rate is 85.7%, and the six year rate is 88.0%. For transfer students, the two year graduation rate is 52.7%, the three year rate is 86.4%, and the four year rate is 89.9%. A new program is working on three year graduation for advanced freshmen. The UC system is adding 5,000 freshmen this year, and another 5,000 over the following two years.
In undergraduate education, our US News ranking is number 39 among National Universities, number 48 in Best Value Schools, and number 23 in Best Colleges for Veterans.
We ranked 44th (tie) in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs. We ranked 32nd (tie) in undergraduate Business Programs.
Our Graduate School Program Rankings follow below, by sectors. Almost all of those are in ties for the same rankings, which doesn’t really matter, so we do not note ties.
Graduate Sciences:
• Biological Sciences: 34
• Chemistry: 24
• Computer Science: 29
• Earth Sciences: 34
• Math: 41
• Physics: 29
Graduate Engineering: 37
Graduate Fine Arts: 33
Graduate Law: 28
Graduate Education: 25
Medical:
• Research: 44
• Primary Care: 62
Graduate Business: 48
Graduate Social Science and Humanities:
• Criminology: 5
• Economics: 46
• English: 22
• History: 36
• Political Science: 40
• Psychology: 30
• Sociology: 25
