48.UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE

48.UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE(...32nd in             USA) (Irvine,CA,USA)                                                                      

The University of California at Irvine shares many traits with its sister schools in the University of California public research system.

 It is young (founded in 1965) and large (over 29,000 students), and has rapidly climbed the ranks from an unknown entity to one of the world’s premier research universities.

Times Higher Education ranks UC Irvine as the number one university under 50 years old, and it was the youngest school to enter the Association of American Universities.

Its yearly contribution of outside funding now exceeds $300 million per year. 

Its endowment is rapidly expanding, having nearly reached its $1 billion fundraising goal set for its 50th anniversary next year.

These growing assets allow the school to develop cutting-edge technology, such as new extremely lightweight but strong materials in resilient micro-lattice metal, or the work of famous computer scientists like Deva Ramanan.

UC Irvine also runs first-class professional schools.

 

Its business school is now respected as one of the best in the world and is particularly known for employing many female professors, while the university’s law school is now ranked among the top 10 for scholarly publications.