WHY UCI?OPPORTUNITIES AT THE BREN SCHOOL OF ICS

Updated 2016

UC IRVINE Founded in 1965 Fall 2015 numbers

o 31,551 students (25,256 undergrads & 6,199 grads)

o 2,908 facultyo 10,214 staff

2nd largest employer in Orange County, CA Rankings:

o Times Higher Education (2015)• UC Irvine #1 in the U.S. and #7 in the

world among universities under 50 years old

o US News and World Report (2016)• Among the top 40 universities

nationally• Among the top 10 public universities

Location, Location Location! o UCI is located 5 miles to the Pacific Ocean,

45 miles to L.A. and 80 miles to San Diego

UCI ACADEMIC UNITSAcademic & professional schools/programs:o Artso Biological Scienceso Businesso Educationo Engineeringo Humanitieso Information and Computer

Scienceso Lawo Medicineo Nursing Scienceo Pharmaceutical Scienceso Physical Scienceso Public Healtho Social Ecologyo Social Sciences

BREN SCHOOL FACTS

Only school of computing in the UC system

Founded in 1968 as Department of Information & Computer Science

Established in 2002 as an independent school, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS)

3 Departments:o Computer Scienceo Informaticso Statistics

RANKINGS Computer Science program ranked 29th

nationally by US News & World Report (Spring 2014)

US News & World Report (Fall 2015) added “Global University” rankings. UC Irvine is 35th in the world (14th in th U.S.) for computer science!

U.S. ranking – purely based on reputation Global ranking – based on productivity

Top 30 Computer Science Programs in the World (2015 Academic Ranking of Word Universities by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

1st among Top 10 Best Schools for Gamers (College Magazine/Animation Career Review, 2015)

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

Roy Fielding (BS ’88, MS ’93, PhD ’00) – primary architect of HTTP/1.1

Paul Mockapetris (PhD ’82) – inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS)

Larry Rowe (BS ’70, PhD ’76) – professor emeritus, UC Berkeley

Barbara Kew (BS ’75) – CIO of Hill-Rom (medical technology)

Tim Kashani (BS ’86) – CEO of IT Mentors and Tony Award-winning producer

BY THE NUMBERS

2,300+ Undergraduate

students

460+ Graduate students

75+ Faculty

50+ Staff

9,000+ Alumni

UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS

Computer Science Informatics Software Engineering Computer Game Science Data Science (NEW in Fall 2015) Business Information Management

(joint with The Paul Merage School of Business)

Computer Science & Engineering (joint with The Henry Samueli School of Engineering)

GRADUATE MAJORS Computer Science – M.S., Ph.D. Informatics – M.S., Ph.D. Networked Systems

(ICS & Engineering) – M.S., Ph.D. Software Engineering – M.S., Ph.D. Statistics – M.S., Ph.D. Information & Computer Science

(Informatics Concentration) – M.S. Information & Computer Science

(Embedded Systems Concentration) – M.S.NEW Graduate Programs

Master of Human-Computer Interaction & Design Master of Computer Science Master of Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems (ICS &

Engineering)

CURRICULAR DIVERSITY

UCI offers choices galore!o 80 majors and 60+

minors Freshman/Transfer 1-unit

seminars (limited to15 students), such as:

o Sports & Statisticso DIY Electronicso Games for Learningo Big Bang Theory Education Abroad

Program

PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

COMMITTED TO STUDENT SUCCESS

Engaged and accessible facultyo Weekly office hours by faculty and course TAso Associate Dean hosts weekly drop-in hours

Academic counseling staffo Help students find most efficient way to meet their

academic goalso Inform students about programs/opportunities that

enhance learning and build their resumeo Guide students to appropriate campus resources

FACULTY EXCELLENCE

Gloria

Mark

Michael Franz

Michael Carey/

Chen Li

Crista Lopes

DanGillen

RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES Student-initiated research

ICS Honors Program

UCI Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)o Provides guidance, funding

and faculty mentor

Campus programs that provide a stipend and summer housing, including:o Summer Undergraduate

Research Programo Summer Undergraduate

Research Fellowship in Information Technology (SURF-IT)

CORPORATE CONNECTIONS

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) ~ UC Irvine Chapter

Design Art and Technology Makerspace (DAT space) ICS Student Council Management Information Student Society (MAISS) Women in Information and Computer Sciences (WICS) Video Game Development Club (VGDC) Hack

STUDENT EVENTS & PROGRAMS

A FEW OF OUR RECENT GRADUATES

Sara Google

Kevin Acquity Group

Christopher Western Digital

Saloni Deloitte Consulting

Lucy PricewaterhouseCoopers

Andrea Georgia Tech Ph.D. Program

FOLLOW US FACEBOOK

o facebook.com/UCIbrenICS

TWITTERo twitter.com/UCIbrenICS

YOUTUBEo youtube.com/UCIbrenICS

FLICKRo flickr.com/BrenSchool

WEBo www.ics.uci.edu

INSTAGRAMo instagram.com/ucibrenics/