The University of California, Irvine was founded in 1965 in Irvine, California. It describes itself as a public research university. Howard Gillman became its sixth chancellor on 18 September 2014.
UC Irvine offers programmes across 15 schools. Its Facts and Figures page lists 36,621 students in 2024-2025: 29,085 undergraduates, 5,456 general campus graduate students and 2,080 health sciences graduate students. For autumn 2024 it reports 1,545 ladder-rank faculty and a total workforce of 34,076, including 12,840 medical centre staff and 8,056 student employees. Degrees awarded in 2024-2025 included 8,626 bachelor’s degrees, 967 master’s degrees and 365 PhDs.