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Irvine, California's University of California (UCI or UC Irvine),

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A public land-grant research university is located in California.

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UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and is one of the University of California System's 10 campuses.

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129 graduate and professional degrees are available,

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And as of fall 2019, UCI has over 30,000 undergraduate and 6,000 graduate students enrolled.

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The institution falls under the category of "R1: Doctoral Universities - Very High Research Activity."

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Furthermore, it spent $436.6 million on research and development in 2018.

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In 1996, UCI joined the Association of American Universities.

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In a 1985 and 2001 comparison of publicly supported colleges, the university was ranked as one of the "public Ivies."

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The writers asserted that they offered a quality of education on par with Ivy League institutions.

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Orange's University UC Irvine Medical Center is a sizable teaching hospital.

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oversees its associated health science system, as well; Arboretum at University of California, Irvine;

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and a portion of the Natural Reserve System of the University of California.

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The first Earth System Science Department in the US was founded at UC Irvine.

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In order to handle the UC system's expanding enrollment, three additional UC campuses, including Irvine, were founded in the 1960s.