BREN SCHOOL FACTS

• Only computing-focused school in UC system
• Founded in 1968 as Department of Information and Computer Science
• Established in 2002 as an independent school, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS)

RANKINGS

• US News & World Report (2022)
  #14 Computer Science graduate program and #12 Computer Science undergraduate program among public universities
   #9 Software Engineering undergraduate program
  #18 Statistics graduate program among public universities
• Microsoft Academic Search website ranking of authors and organizations by citations (as of March 11, 2014)
  UC Irvine 20th among U.S. universities in computer science. Some top subareas:
  - Human-computer interaction: 4th
  - Software engineering: 9th
  - Databases: 8th

BY THE NUMBERS – Download PDF

• 3,900+ students
• 100+ Faculty (full-time and lecturers)
• 70+ Staff
• 15,000+ Alumni
• Three departments: Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

3,100+ undergraduate students in seven majors

• Computer Science
• Data Science
• Informatics
• Software Engineering 
• Game Design and Interactive Media 
• Business Information Management (joint with the Paul Merage School of Business)
• Computer Science & Engineering (joint with the Henry Samueli School of Engineering)

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

530+ graduate students

• Computer Science (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Informatics: (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Software Engineering: (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Statistics: (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Networked Systems: (M.S., Ph.D.)

Professional Master Programs

350+ professional master's students

• Master of Computer Science
• Master of Data Science 
• Master of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems
• Master of Human-Computer Interaction and Design
• Master of Software Engineering

INFLUENTIAL FACULTY AND ALUMNI

Our faculty

• 2 members of the National Academy of Engineering: Michael Carey (2012), Judy Olson (2018)
• 10 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Pierre Baldi, Geoffrey Bowker, Rina Dechter, Paul Dourish, David Eppstein, Michael Franz, Michael Goodrich, Ramesh Jain, Eric Mjolsness, Annie Qu, Padhraic Smyth, Hal Stern, Gene Tsudik, Jessica Utts
• 14 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Pierre Baldi, Michael Carey, Rena Dechter, Paul Dourish, Nikil Dutt, David Eppstein, Michael Franz, Michael Goodrich, Ramesh Jain, Gary Olson, Judy Olson, Padhraic Smyth, Richard Taylor, Gene Tsudik
• 11 Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): Pierre Baldi, Michael Carey, Nikil Dutt, Michael Franz, Michael Goodrich, Ramesh Jain, Crista Lopes, Sharad Mehrotra, Alexandru Nicolau, Marios Papaefthymiou, Gene Tsudik
• 7 Fellows of the American Statistical Association (ASA): Veronica Berrocal, Daniel Gillen, Wesley Johnson, Hernando Ombao, Babak Shahbaba, Hal Stern, Jessica Utts
• 2 members of Academia Europaea: Alex Nicolau  (2018) and Gene Tsudik
• 1 foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences & Letters: Michael Goodrich (2018)
• 2 elected members of International Statistical Institute: Bin Nan, Annie Qu
• 1 member of the Board of Directors for the Computer Research Association (CRA): Gillian Hayes
• 2 Mercator Fellowships from the German Research Foundation: Alfred Kobsa, Stephan Mandt
• ACM Charles P. "Chuck" Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award: Michael Franz

Our alumni

• Roy Fielding (B.S. '88, M.S. '93, Ph.D. '00) primary architect of HTTP/1.1
• Paul Mockapetris (Ph.D. '82) inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS)
• Larry Rowe (B.S. '70, PhD '76) professor emeritus, UC Berkeley
• Barbara Kew (B.S. '75) CIO of Hill-Rom (medical technology)
• Tim Kashani (B.S. '86) CEO of IT Mentors and Tony Award-winning

RESEARCH CENTERS

• Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute
• Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing
• Institute for Future Health
• Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics
• Institute for Software Research
• Institute for Virtual Environments and Computer Games
• Center for Algorithms and Theory of Computation
• Center for Emergency Response Technologies
• Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems
• Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction 
• Secure Computing and Networking Center

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) - UC Irvine Chapter
• Hack
• ICS Student Council (ICSSC)
• Management Information Student Society (MAISS)
• Video Game Development Club (VGDC)
• Women in Information and Computer Sciences (WICS)

CPRI is an NSA-Designated Center for Excellence in Cybersecurity in Research (CAE-R).