Honors & Awards

UCI ranked #7 in America for best public school freshman financial aid programs

UCI ranks as the seventh best public institution of higher education in America for freshman financial aid programs, according to the Student Loan Report. Debt after graduation is one of the country’s most critical economic issues, and UCI is a leader in helping its students understand and manage the cost of college. The Top Public […]

Assistant professor of English wins book prize

Annie McClanahan, assistant professor of English, has received the 2017 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present book prize. Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis & Twenty-First-Century Culture (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores the ways that U.S. culture — from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies — has responded to the financial […]

UCI ranked #12 on national 2017 Social Mobility Index

UCI has been named  the 12th best social mobility school in the country in the the CollegeNET Inc. 2017 Social Mobility Index. The awards are given in recognition of the academic support programs that help first generation and low income students obtain college degrees and good paying jobs. “We remain dedicated to the success and […]

University is recognized as a distinguished partner by the Santa Ana Unified School District

UCI was recognized as a Santa Ana Unified School District distinguished partner at the 2017 State of the District Breakfast on Oct. 13. “UCI was selected along with two other agencies because of the wide range of opportunities that the university has extended to the students of Santa Ana,” said Stefanie Phillips, SAUSD superintendent. UCI […]

UCI makes sustainability 'honor roll' for 5th time

UCI has been selected for The Princeton Review’s 2018 Green College Honor Roll, the fifth time it has made the list, which salutes universities earning a perfect score of 99 in The Princeton Review’s sustainability rating system. This year, 24 U.S. schools were listed, out of 629 evaluated, and UCI was the only UC campus included. […]

Assemblyman honors UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman for campus free speech advocacy

Free speech was the subject of the day in Sacramento, as UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman met with Assemblyman Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) to discuss the hot-button campus topic and to receive a framed copy of Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 21. Passed unanimously July 17, it urges all state colleges and universities to adopt free speech statements […]

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UCI is ranked 9th among nation's public universities by U.S. News & World Report

Campus also receives high marks for low student debt, serving veterans

Accounting professor wins award for tax planning paper

Terry Shevlin, professor of accounting and associate dean of research & doctoral programs at UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business, has received the 2017 Tax Manuscript Award from the American Taxation Association. The paper, “Incentives for Tax Planning & Avoidance: Evidence from the Field,” published in The Accounting Review, describes the results from a survey […]

UCI among Sierra magazine's top 10 ‘Cool Schools' for eighth straight year

Campus’s green transportation, water conservation, innovation are credited

UCI again named best college for beach lovers

Affordability, academic excellence and alumni success are all important criteria when selecting which college to attend. For those who want all of that plus easy access to the beach, there’s really only one choice: UCI. For the second year in a row, Money magazine has ranked UCI the No. 1 college for beach lovers. To […]