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Since its founding in 1965, UC Irvine had combined the strengths of a major university with the bounty of an incomparable Southern California location. With more than 1,200 faculty members, 7,900 staff and 23,000 students, UC Irvine is the fourth-largest campus in the University of California system and Orange County's second-largest employer. UC Irvine is consistently ranked among the nation's best public universities.
UC Irvine is distinguished by a spirit of innovation and is renowned for strengths in research and education. UC Irvine became the first public university with faculty receiving Nobel Prizes in two different fields-chemistry and physics- in the same year. Alumni include Pulitzer Prize winners, state legislators, prominent scientists, Olympic athletes and some of the nation's most successful entrepreneurs and business leaders.