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The university takes great pride in educating a diverse student population and providing them with a world-class educational experience that serves as the foundation for them to become future leaders in industries and communities.

UCI strives to enhance the student experience by evaluating programs, policies and practices. By building off past work, the university granted a combined 11,353 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in 2023, marking the third consecutive year that UCI has conferred at least 11,000 degrees.

Below are some examples of the university’s efforts to make UCI a top choice for students of all backgrounds.

People entering and exiting the UCI Student Center.

UCI is ranked among nation’s top 10 public universities for ninth year in a row
Campus also rates highly for social mobility of its graduating students

Classroom full of students and instructors

Merage School of Business students go boldly ‘Into the Metaverse’
The School continues to be at the forefront of the digital world by being one of the first UC programs to offer an immersive experience in a virtual classroom

UCI Law and School of Humanities offer students new pathways from humanities into law
In new program, students can earn their B.A. and J.D. degrees in six years

UCI to launch pre-health program with support from state of California
Multipronged training model will prepare more underrepresented undergraduates for careers in medicine

Building homes for a sustainable world
UC Irvine student engineer teams earn praise for innovation at the Sustainability Decathlon

Three people surrounded by plants on outside of model home at the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon.

During the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon, held in October at the Orange County Fairgrounds, members of the public were given an opportunity to tour homes designed and built by the entrants. The LUCID home created by a UC Irvine team featured an outdoor patio to provide livable green space. Steve Zylius / UCI

Man wearing construction hard hat on ladder outside of home at a building site.

Mark Walter, UCI professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, works on the home with a sky full of cumulus clouds above. Walter and his TeamMADE collaborators from UCI and Orange Coast College worked on their model home at the Orange County Fairgrouds as part of the O.C. Sustainability Decathlon. Steve Zylius / UCI

Workers in hard hats carry and move equipment on a building site.

Orange Coast College student Georgie Ampudia (right) and UCI civil engineering student Matthew Ramon move materials as a crane lifts one of the modules onto a truck for transport to the Orange County Fairgrounds, the site of the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon. Steve Zylius / UCI

Three people look up to view a large crane lifting a module of their sustainable house.

Jennifer Wilkens anxiously watches as the TeamMADE LuminOCity house is hoisted by a crane onto a truck for transport from Orange Coast College to the Orange County Fairgrounds. Steve Zylius / UCI

A large crane lifts a segment of concrete house as people in hard hats and yellow vest look on.

UCI civil and environmental engineering graduate student Daniel Ziemer watches as a crane is used to position modules of the LUCID home in place at the Orange County Fairgrounds. Steve Zylius / UCI

A worker in a hard hat, wearing a face mask, install a ceiling panel inside a home that is being built.

Keely Wandrocke, UCI undergraduate student in mechanical and aerospace engineering (left), and Khuong Nguyen, M&AE graduate student, install temperature-regulating material into the ceiling of the TeamMADE LuminOCity sustainable home at its construction site at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif. Steve Zylius / UCI

Workers in hard hats and yellow vests inspect work being done inside a model home.

Ayman Mosallam, UCI professor of civil and environmental engineering (center), supervises the preparation of the LUCID home for display at the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon as his graduate student Faisal Abdulaziz Almegren (left) looks on. Steve Zylius / UCI

A man with a yellow vest lies on his back underneath a house using a wrench to adjust a stabilizing jack stand.

Mark Walter, UCI professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and TeamMADE faculty advisor and technical manager, secures the LuminOCity house to its foundation at the Orange County Fairgrounds. Steve Zylius / UCI

Workers in hard hats and yellow vests inspect the foundation of a model home.

Mechanical engineering undergraduate student Keely Wandrocke helps guide the TeamMADE LuminOCity home onto its foundation at the Orange County Fairgrounds following the transport of the building’s modules from their construction site at Orange Coast College. Steve Zylius / UCI

Workers in hard hats and yellow vests work together to place a roof frame on top of a structure.

TeamMADE members work together to assemble the LuminOCity home at the Orange County Fairgrounds for the 2023 Orange County Sustainability Decathlon. Steve Zylius / UCI

Workers in hard hats and yellow vests talking outside of a model home.

Ayman Mossalam (left), UCI professor of civil and environmental engineering, and C&EE graduate student Faisal Almegren deal with complications as work continues on the two UCI team homes at the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon at the O.C. Fairgrounds. Steve Zylius / UCI

Workers in hard hats and yellow vests assemble furniture on a driveway outside of their model home.

Pin-yi Li and Daniel Ziemer, graduate students in UCI’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, assemble a bunk bed to help furnish their LUCID home, an entrant in the 2023 Orange County Sustainability Decathlon. Steve Zylius / UCI

Workers in hard hats and yellow vests move building materials on a construction site.

Nicole Stimpson, UCI mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate, helps move a piece of a facade for the TeamMADE LuminOCity home. Steve Zylius / UCI

Workers in hard hats and yellow vests inspect work being done inside a model home.

Irvine City Council member Larry Agran visits the LUCID house which was designed and built by a team from UCI’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and other departments for entry in the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon. Steve Zylius / UCI

Workers in hard hats position a vegetable planter on the roof of a house.

On opening day of the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon at the Orange County Fairgrounds, student team members install aeroponic vegetable planters on the roof of the LUCID house. Steve Zylius / UCI

Workers in hard hats and yellow vests move a tree into position outside of a model home.

Members of TeamMADE put the finishing touches on their LuminOCity house with the placement of native plants on the exterior. Steve Zylius / UCI

Female student speaks into a microphone on a stage.

Jackie Yoo, UCI graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, introduces the LUCID home to an audience at the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon. Steve Zylius / UCI

TeamMADE members raise their hands in celebration on a stage with a speaker's podium.

TeamMADE has an onstage celebration of their strong showing in the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon. Steve Zylius / UCI

Workers in hard hats install a vegetable planter tower on the roof of a house.

Students carry aeroponic vegetable planters to the roof of the LUCID home, one of two UCI entrants in the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon. Steve Zylius / UCI

Several visitors tour the living room of a model home.

The Orange County Sustainability Decathlon featured public viewing days when people could tour fully furnished, operating homes. Steve Zylius / UCI

A decorative vase with baby's breath flowers on a coffee table in front of a sofa.

In addition to implementing a host of energy-saving and water conservation technologies in their homes, teams participating in the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon put a lot of emphasis on the finer design details to make their structures more visually appealing. The photo shows the living space of the LUCID home designed and built by UCI students. Steve Zylius / UCI

Six people on the inside of a nicely decorated model home.

The public tours the LUCID home which ws designed and built by students in UCI’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The home is one of two entrants in the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon. Steve Zylius / UCI

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