The
University of California, Irvine (
UCI,
UC Irvine, or
Irvine), is a
public research university located in
Irvine, California, and one of the 10 general campuses in the
University of California (UC)
system. UC Irvine is considered a
Public Ivy and offers 80 undergraduate degrees and 98 graduate and professional degrees. The university is designated as having
very high research activity in the
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, and in fiscal year 2013 had $348 million in
research and development expenditures according to the
National Science Foundation. UC Irvine became a member of the
Association of American Universities in 1996, and is the youngest university to hold membership. The university also administers the
UC Irvine Medical Center, a large
teaching hospital in
Orange, and
its affiliated health sciences system; the
University of California, Irvine, Arboretum; and a portion of the
University of California Natural Reserve System.