1. NEW STUDENT WELCOME By Dean Hal Stern 09.24.12

2. QUICK FACTS  Founded in 1968 as Department of Information and Computer Science  Established in 2002 as an independent school  Only computing-focused school in UC system  Three departments: o Computer Science o Informatics o Statistics

3. NATIONAL RANKINGS  Times Higher Education o UCI ranks first in the U.S. and fourth in the world among 100 best universities under 50 years old  US News & World Report o UCI ranks 12 th among public universities o Among the top 15 public computer science graduate programs  Microsoft Academic Search website ranks authors and organizations by citations (as of 01.13.12) o UCI 17 th among U.S. universities in computer science o Some top subareas: o Human-computer interaction: 5 th o Software engineering: 8 th o Databases: 12 th

4. POINTS OF PRIDE

5. DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI  Roy Fielding (BS ’88, MS ’93, PhD ’00) – primary architect of HTTP/1.1  Paul Mockapetris (PhD ’82) – inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS)  Larry Rowe (BS ’70, PhD ’76) – professor emeritus, UC Berkeley  Barbara Kew (BS ’75) – CIO of Hill-Rom (medical technology)  Tim Kashani (BS ’86) – CEO of IT Mentors and Tony Award-winning producer

6. DEGREE PROGRAMS MINORS  Bioinformatics [NEW!]  Digital Information Systems  Health Informatics [NEW!]  Informatics  Information & Computer Science  Statistics MAJORS  Computer Science  Informatics  Computer Game Science  Software Engineering  Business Information Management  Computer Science & Engineering

7. WHO YOU ARE 301 FRESHMEN 113 Computer Science 72 Computer Game Science 43 Business Information Management 34 Computer Science & Engineering 25 ICS - Undeclared 8 Software Engineering 6 Informatics 110 ADVANCED STANDING* 73 Computer Science 19Computer Game Science 9 Information & Computer Science 5 Informatics 2 Business Information Management 1 Computer Science & Engineering 1 Software Engineering * Includes Transfer and 2 nd Baccalaureate

8. BY THE NUMBERS TRANSFER (excludes visiting and 2 nd bacc students)  Mean GPA o Bren School3.44 o UCI3.42 GENDER (new freshmen + transfers)  Male77%  Female23% FRESHMEN  Mean GPA o Bren School3.89 o UCI3.89  Mean SAT o Bren School1774 o UCI1672

9. LEADERS & INNOVATORS

10. CLASS OF 2012 GRADUATES Sara Boone CSE Google Danielle Yu INF Acquity Group Travis Abeyti CS Western Digital Alexis Allen BIM Boeing

11. JOBS.ICS.UCI.EDU

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