Welcome! UC Irvine offers a wide variety of highly ranked academic and professional degree programs, and we encourage talented and forward-thinking students from across the country and around the world to apply. Faculty offer admission to those applicants who have the highest potential to succeed in graduate study and who are most likely to have substantial impact on their chosen field of interest through research, teaching or professional endeavors. We value our graduate students as important participants in the scholarship and research conducted at UC Irvine.