UCI computer program gets national recognition

UC Irvine’s information and computer science graduate program moved up

five places to No. 29 in the most recent U.S. News & World Report

academic rankings.

The rankings highlight the country’s academically excellent graduate

programs and are based on surveys in which scholars rate schools’

reputations for scholarship, curriculum and the quality of faculty and

graduate students.

“We take this improvement in rankings to heart,” said Debra

Richardson, department chairwoman. “To be recognized in the top 30 of

computer science doctoral programs in the country is a tribute to the

efforts of our distinguished faculty.”

The UCI program, the largest within the UC system, benefits from

strong research partnerships with many of the nation’s leading

information technology companies, which in turn hire many of the

program’s graduate students, Richardson said.