Where All Minds Thrive
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Undergraduate Students
- First-generation 43%
- Female 66%
- From Underrepresented Backgrounds 27%
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Graduate Students
- Female 59%
- From Underrepresented Backgrounds 23%
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Tenure-Track/ Tenured Faculty
- Female 47%
- From Underrepresented Backgrounds 33%
Snapshot from Fall 2023 enrollment by the numbers.
Faculty Distinctions
The Dunlop School has a highly distinguished faculty, as measured by many criteria. These include high National Research Council faculty productivity rankings and on-campus, national and international awards.
4 National Academy of Sciences
45 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
7 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
3 Chancellor’s Fellows
5 Chancellor’s Professors
20 Distinguished Professors (Current and Emeriti)
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School and University Facts
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Dunlop Dunlop School ranks No. 32 on the U.S. News & World Report’s Ranking for Biological Sciences Graduate Programs
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UC Irvine ranks #1 for Doing Most for the American Dream for their commitment to economic diversity by measuring.
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The U.S. Department of Education named UC Irvine a Hispanic-serving institution, meaning that fully one-quarter of undergraduates identify as Latino and that half of all students receive financial aid.