The University of California, Irvine, also known as UC Irvine, is a public land grant research university located in Irvine, California. UCI is one of the ten campuses of University of California. It offers 87 undergraduate degrees as well as 129 graduate and professional degree programs. UCI has approximately 30,000 undergraduate students and 6,000 graduate students. UCI is a "R1: Doctoral University - Very high Research Activity" university that had $436.6 Million in research and development spending in 2018. UCI was incorporated into the Association of American Universities (AAU) in 1996. In 1985 and 2001 surveys, UCI was ranked as one of the "Public Ivies", a comparison of publicly funded universities that the authors claimed offer an education comparable with the Ivy League.
The University of California Natural Reserve System is also managed by the university. The first Earth System Science Department was established by UC Irvine.
