new student welcome by dean hal stern

NEW STUDENT WELCOMEBy Dean Hal Stern

09.19.11

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

US News & World Reporto UCI ranks among the top 15 public

universitieso Rated 14th of public computer science

graduate programs

Chronicle of Higher Educationo Ranked first in the nation in

Computer and Information Sciences for faculty scholarly productivity

Princeton Reviewo UCI named among “Best in the West”

DEGREE PROGRAMS

MINORS

Biomedical Computing

Digital Information Science

Informatics

Information & Computer

Science

Statistics

MAJORS

Computer Science

Informatics

Information & Computer

Science

Biomedical Computing

Computer Game Science

Business Information

Management

Computer Science &

Engineering

LEARN FROM THE BEST

WHO YOU ARE

263 FRESHMEN112 Computer Science 60 Computer Game

Science 26 Business

Information Management 23 Information &

Computer Science 18 ICS – Undeclared 10 Computer Science

& Engineering 9 Informatics 5 Biomedical

Computing

113 ADVANCED STANDING* 75 Computer Science 13 Information &

Computer Science 10 Informatics 8 Computer Game

Science 4 Business

Information Management 3 Computer Science

& Engineering

* Transfers (101), Visiting (11), 2nd Bacc (1)

BY THE NUMBERS

TRANSFER (excludes visiting and 2nd bacc students)

Mean GPAo Bren School

3.48o UCI

3.41

GENDER (new freshmen + transfers)

Male 81% Female 19%

FRESHMEN

Mean GPAo Bren School

3.9o UCI

3.87

Mean SATo Bren School

1830o UCI

1722

SCHOLARS / LEADERS / VOLUNTEERS

STAY CONNECTED

FACEBOOKo facebook.com/

UCIbrenICS

TWITTERo twitter.com/UCIbrenICS

YOUTUBEo youtube.com/UCIbrenICS

FLICKRo flickr.com/BrenSchool

WEBo www.ics.uci.edu