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New student welcome By 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: Computer Science Informatics Statistics.
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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: • Computer Science • Informatics • Statistics
NATIONAL RANKINGS • Times Higher Education • UCI ranks first in the U.S. and fourth in the world among 100 best universities under 50 years old • US News & World Report • UCI ranks 12th among public universities • Among the top 15 public computer science graduate programs • Microsoft Academic Search website ranks authors and organizations by citations(as of 01.13.12) • UCI 17thamong U.S. universities in computer science • Some top subareas: • Human-computer interaction: 5th • Software engineering: 8th • Databases: 12th
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 • MAJORS • Computer Science • Informatics • Computer Game Science • Software Engineering • Business Information Management • Computer Science & Engineering • MINORS • Bioinformatics [NEW!] • Digital Information Systems • Health Informatics [NEW!] • Informatics • Information & Computer Science • Statistics
WHO YOU ARE 301 FRESHMEN 113 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 • FRESHMEN • Mean GPA • Bren School 3.89 • UCI 3.89 • Mean SAT • Bren School 1774 • UCI 1672 • TRANSFER(excludes visiting and 2nd bacc students) • Mean GPA • Bren School 3.44 • UCI 3.42 • GENDER(new freshmen + transfers) • Male 77% • Female 23%
CLASS OF 2012 GRADUATES Travis Abeyti CS Western Digital Alexis Allen BIM Boeing Sara Boone CSE Google Danielle Yu INF Acquity Group
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