UC Irvine has scored a 9th (tie) ranking nationally among Public Universities in the 2018 US News & World Report rankings. It is 42nd (tie) among National Universities.
UC Irvine has 27,331 undergraduates, and 32,754 total students. Its in-state tuition and fees are $15,516, its out-of-state tuition and fees are $43,530, and room and board are $14,829.
It is tied for 16th in Best Colleges for Veterans, tied for 49th in High School Counselor Rankings, tied for 40th in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs, and #121 in Best Value Schools (but ranked much higher on this in other rankings).
I am only showing their publicly available rankings, and not revealing any of their paid for rankings, so as not to impinge on their copyright.
I will list their Graduate School Rankings, without indicating ties:
44 Best Business Schools; 42 Part-Time MBA
37 Best Engineering Schools
28 Best Law Schools
71 Best Medical Schools: Primary Care
48 Best Medical Schools: Research
82 Best Nursing Schools: Masters
34 Biological Sciences
24 Chemistry; 12 Organic
29 Computer Sciences
34 Earth Sciences
47 Economics
17 English; 1 Literary Criticism and Theory
33 Fine Arts
34 History
41 Math
29 Physics
45 Political Science
36 Psychology
23 Sociology
In Graduate Physics Programs, I will just list California Universities: (adding the top 6, and ignoring all of the tie designations)
1 MIT
2 Cal Tech
2 Harvard
2 Princeton
2 Stanford
2 UC Berkeley
10 UC Santa Barbara
16 UC San Diego
18 UCLA
29 UC Davis
29 UC Irvine
39 UC Santa Cruz
54 UC Riverside
60 USC