new student welcome by dean hal stern 09.24.12. quick facts founded in 1968 as department of...
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QUICK FACTS
Founded in 1968 as Department of Information and Computer Science
Established in 2002 as an independent school
Only computing-focused school in UC system
Three departments:o Computer Scienceo Informaticso Statistics
NATIONAL RANKINGS
Times Higher Educationo UCI ranks first in the U.S. and fourth in
the world among 100 best universities under 50 years old
US News & World Reporto UCI ranks 12th among public
universitieso Among the top 15 public computer
science graduate programs Microsoft Academic Search website ranks
authors and organizations by citations (as of 01.13.12)o UCI 17th among U.S. universities in
computer scienceo Some top subareas:
o Human-computer interaction: 5th o Software engineering: 8th
o Databases: 12th
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
DEGREE PROGRAMS
MINORS
Bioinformatics [NEW!]
Digital Information Systems
Health Informatics [NEW!]
Informatics
Information & Computer
Science
Statistics
MAJORS
Computer Science
Informatics
Computer Game Science
Software Engineering
Business Information
Management
Computer Science &
Engineering
WHO YOU ARE
301 FRESHMEN113 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
TRANSFER (excludes visiting and 2nd bacc students)
Mean GPAo Bren School
3.44o UCI
3.42
GENDER (new freshmen + transfers)
Male 77% Female 23%
FRESHMEN
Mean GPAo Bren School
3.89o UCI
3.89
Mean SATo Bren School
1774o UCI
1672
CLASS OF 2012 GRADUATES
Sara BooneCSEGoogle
Danielle YuINFAcquity Group
Travis AbeytiCSWestern Digital
Alexis AllenBIMBoeing