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UCI ranked among 25 best public research schools
November 3rd, 2009, 5:00 am · 10 Comments · posted by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor
Aerial view of UC Irvine, which has nearly 28,000 students this fall.
The University of California says it doesn’t endorse the qualitative rankings that are issued by various magazines and institutions. So what does the UC do? It issues a news release summarizing how well many of its campuses have finished in the same rankings.
The new list includes an assessment from Arizona State University that I had not seen. It places UC Irvine among the top 25 public research universities in the country. The ranking is more rigorous than ones produced by US News and World Report because it depends less on reputation than on important criteria that can be measured.
Specifically, ASU says it uses nine measures: total research, federal research, endowment assets, annual giving, National Academy members, faculty awards, doctorates granted, postdoctoral appointees and SAT/ACT scores.
The ASU ranking is a sweet one for Irvine, which is straining to serve a record number of students this fall while coping with deep budget cuts, furloughs and lay-offs. But the UC list fails to mention that UCI dropped about 30 spots in the latest World University Rankings, which literally sums up Irvine’s place in the academic world.
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Ok, UCI is on a list that you thought was valid enough to mention. So what are the OTHER schools on the list?? Is there a link to an on-line version of the list?
Inquiring minds are kind of curious.
The title of the article implies something entirely different than the last sentence of the article.
I heard the waiting list for daycare in Irvine was very long. The men had to pre-register before they made their wives pregnant.
Note the difference of “public research ranking” and the “total sum ranking.”
UCI is in the top 30 public research, but recently fell 30 spots in the overall ranking.
BS: You’re reading different lists. The public research ranking came from Arizona State. The World University Rankings, which literally take in all of the significant schools in the world, is put out by TLS in London.
UCI needs to do some PR. What research?
Alterego58: UCI does more than $300 million in research every year.
Gary, do you have a resource that identifies the kind’s of research they do? Is a lot of it medical research?
alterego58: More than half of UCI’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health. Irvine does a lot of research in the areas of breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, hearing and depression. The first major treatment for Lyme’s disease was developed at Irvine.
You can search for research by school and then departments starting on the page:
http://www.uci.edu/research.php
Each faculty member has a research and teaching page on:
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/
which can also be searched by school.
You can also have lunch on Wednesdays at the Univ. Club Forum
with free parking and hear many faculty talks. Schedule at:
http://www.uclub.uci.edu/Forum.php