NEW STUDENT WELCOMEBy Dean Hal Stern

09.24.12

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

POINTS OF PRIDE

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

LEADERS & INNOVATORS

CLASS OF 2012 GRADUATES

Sara BooneCSEGoogle

Danielle YuINFAcquity Group

Travis AbeytiCSWestern Digital

Alexis AllenBIMBoeing

JOBS.ICS.UCI.EDU

STAY CONNECTED

FACEBOOKo facebook.com/

UCIbrenICS

TWITTERo twitter.com/UCIbrenICS

YOUTUBEo youtube.com/UCIbrenICS

FLICKRo flickr.com/BrenSchool

WEBo www.ics.uci.edu