NEW STUDENT WELCOME
By Dean Hal Stern
09.24.12
QUICK FACTS
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Founded in 1968 as Department of
Information and Computer Science
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Established in 2002 as an independent school
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Only computing-focused school in UC system
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Three departments:
o Computer Science
o Informatics
o Statistics
NATIONAL RANKINGS
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Times Higher Education
o UCI ranks first in the U.S. and fourth in the world
among 100 best universities under 50 years old
US News & World Report
o UCI ranks 12th among public universities
o Among the top 15 public computer science
graduate programs
Microsoft Academic Search website ranks authors and
organizations by citations (as of 01.13.12)
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UCI 17th among U.S. universities in computer science
Some top subareas:
o Human-computer interaction: 5th
o Software engineering: 8th
o Databases: 12th
POINTS OF PRIDE
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI
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Roy Fielding (BS ’88, MS ’93, PhD ’00) – primary architect of HTTP/1.1
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Paul Mockapetris (PhD ’82) – inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS)
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Larry Rowe (BS ’70, PhD ’76) – professor emeritus, UC Berkeley
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Barbara Kew (BS ’75) – CIO of Hill-Rom (medical technology)
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Tim Kashani (BS ’86) – CEO of IT Mentors and Tony Award-winning producer
DEGREE PROGRAMS
MAJORS
MINORS
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Computer Science
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Bioinformatics [NEW!]
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Informatics
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Digital Information Systems
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Computer Game Science
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Health Informatics [NEW!]
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Software Engineering
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Informatics
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Business Information Management
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Information & Computer Science
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Computer Science & Engineering
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Statistics
WHO YOU ARE
301 FRESHMEN
113 Computer Science
72 Computer Game Science
43 Business Information Management
34 Computer Science & Engineering
25 ICS - Undeclared
8 Software Engineering
6 Informatics
110 ADVANCED STANDING*
73 Computer Science
19 Computer Game Science
9 Information & Computer Science
5 Informatics
2 Business Information Management
1 Computer Science & Engineering
1 Software Engineering
* Includes Transfer and 2nd Baccalaureate
BY THE NUMBERS
FRESHMEN
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TRANSFER (excludes visiting and 2nd bacc students)
Mean GPA
o Bren School
o UCI
3.89
3.89
Mean SAT
o Bren School
o UCI
1774
1672
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Mean GPA
o Bren School
o UCI
3.44
3.42
GENDER (new freshmen + transfers)
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Male
Female
77%
23%
LEADERS & INNOVATORS
CLASS OF 2012 GRADUATES
Travis Abeyti
CS
Western Digital
Alexis Allen
BIM
Boeing
Sara Boone
CSE
Google
Danielle Yu
INF
Acquity Group
JOBS.ICS.UCI.EDU
STAY CONNECTED
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FACEBOOK
o facebook.com/UCIbrenICS
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TWITTER
o twitter.com/UCIbrenICS
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YOUTUBE
o youtube.com/UCIbrenICS
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FLICKR
o flickr.com/BrenSchool
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WEB
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www.ics.uci.edu