new student welcome by dean hal stern
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New student welcome By 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: Computer Science Informatics Statistics. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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