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unitid 110653 · Irvine, CA · public 4-year · city (large)

University of California-Irvine

Public university in Irvine, California, US

founded
1965
enrollment 2023
38,000
predominant degree
Bachelor's
website
uci.edu
Campus of University of California-Irvine

Original University of California seal: probably Tiffany & Co,; This SVG file: User:Casecrer · Public domain

The University of California, Irvine is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and professional degrees, and roughly 30,000 undergraduates and 7,000 graduate students were enrolled at UCI as of Fall 2024. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and had $609.6 million in research and development expenditures in 2023, ranking it 56th nationally. UCI became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996. wikipedia rev 1363613452 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

29%

3rd pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

30,197

94th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

36%

undergrads on Pell grants

63rd pctl among public 4-years

completion

87%

finish within 150% time

98th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$38,632

98th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$14,251

after aid, aided students

61st pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$80,735

after entry, Title IV students

97th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$15,000

30th pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $8,123 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    38%
  • 30-48k
    21%
  • 48-75k
    18%
  • 75-110k
    not reported
  • 110k+
    not reported
Median family income
$34,735
First-generation students
44%
In-state tuition & fees
$15,722

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 5.4× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Biology, General.766$72,132$15,767
Research and Experimental Psychology.633$62,639$13,000
Business/Managerial Economics.576$74,617$15,000
Computer Science.467$132,705$15,500
Criminology.465$59,960$15,865
Psychology, General.457$56,253$14,883
Public Health.392$64,449$17,285
Economics.386$73,054$15,499
Business Administration, Management and Operations.360$89,501$13,000
Mechanical Engineering.284$95,534$14,500
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.274——
Education, General.272$58,011$15,575

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

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  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 2,623 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,008) · basketball player (379) · university teacher (190) · computer scientist (135) · writer (65) · actor (48) · academic (39) · economist (39)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • David MacMillan Chemistry 2021

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Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363613452), CC BY-SA 4.0.