Student life

There is more to life as a Bren School student than lectures and labs:

In addition to offering you many opportunities for student involvement, the campus provides a range of services designed to help students achieve academic progress and success even when problems or difficulties arise.

What Students Say

Don't take our word for it, check out what real students have to say about UCI and the Bren School.

Check out the Bren School Ambassador's blog and read about what life is really like as a Bren School student at UCI.

Read some student profiles or view the video profiles below.

Hector Parra
Computer Science major
Rebecca Maessen
ICS major

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Join a Student Group

In addition to the plethora of UCI student groups, the Bren School sponsors a number of student groups, listed below, that you may join that address specific interests in the field of information and computer sciences.

  • ACM, Student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery
    The Association for Computing Machinery is the world's largest society of information technology students and professionals. The chapter represents the needs of the UCI computing community.

  • INSA, Informatics Student Association
    Works to unite the Informatics community at UCI and to promote the Informatics major to students and companies alike. We offer workshops, corporate visits and tours, individual tutoring and mentoring, tournaments and competitions and networking/recruiting events with technology companies.
  • UCF, Undergraduate Computing Federation
    Promotes interaction between and provide resources to students with an interest in Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Network Security, Cryptography, or Ethical Hacking. Open to all UCI undergraduate or graduate students.

  • WICS, Women in Computer Sciences
    By joining WICS, female students can surround themselves with their peers and positive influences who, not only work with and can assist them with their classes and curriculum, but can also help them network with other successful women, giving them even more opportunities to succeed.

Live in the Bren School Theme House

photo:: arroyo vista housing communityThe school sponsors a theme house in the Arroyo Vista housing community, which is in walking distance of the Anteater Recreation Center.

The theme house provides informal, academic and social functions for students interested in the field of information and computer science.

The goals of this house are to expose residents to faculty, alumni and businesspersons in the information and computer sciences field.

Activities include visits to corporations, opportunities to participate in symposiums and workshops centering on academic success, community and career opportunities, preparation for graduate/professional schools and learning skills. 

The house is open to all students with an interest in information and computer sciences.