University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine, known as UCI or UC Irvine, is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States, and one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. It was one of three new campuses created in the 1960s under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, and it began operations on October 4, 1965. As of fall 2024 it enrolled roughly 30,000 undergraduates and 7,000 graduate students, and it offers 87 undergraduate and 129 graduate and professional degrees. It is classified among the doctoral universities with very high research activity and has belonged to the Association of American Universities since 1996. In this atlas it is the academic home of scholars of crime, law and society, among them Charis Kubrin and Valerie Jenness.