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Rankings roundup

Soc sci grad programs earn top 25 rankings among public universities, top 50 rankings overall


A quick look at UCI's recent rankings on a number of scales provides evidence of what many of us already knew: UCI is an up-and-coming place to be. A snapshot:

  • #1 university that does most for low-income students in terms of access, affordability and student success, The New York Times College Access Index
  • #1 university for beach lovers, Money magazine
  • #7 best public university, Money magazine
  • #7 in the nation for awarding bachelor's degrees to minority students, Diverse Issues in Higher Education
  • #9 best public university in the U.S., U.S. News & World Report
  • Top 10 "Cool School" for sustainability, Sierra magazine
  • Top 10 best value college in terms of tuition, quality and graduation success rates and post-grad earnings, Forbes
  • #16 among U.S. four year universities delivering the most value, Money magazine

Within the School of Social Sciences, graduate programs are all highly ranked. The most recent programs to be evaluated (not all program rankings are done each year) are sociology, psychology, political science and economics by U.S. News & World Report. All four earned top 25 rankings among public U.S. universities and top 50 rankings overall:

  • Sociology, 12th among public universities, 23rd overall
  • Psychology, 19th among public universities, 36th overall (administered by both the Department of Cognitive Sciences in Social Sciences and the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior in Social Ecology)
  • Political science, 24th among public universities, 45th overall
  • Economics, 24th among public universities, 47th overall

Read on...





news

Better together

John and Michelle Williams, soc sci's husband and wife Lauds and Laurels honorees, are helping UCI usher in a bright future

Presidential sidekick

UCI alumna recounts her time as Obama's personal assistant

Cross-continental

Economics alumna and Lauds and Laurels winner recruits fresh faces to expand UCI's growing international community

Women's History Month: Vicki Ruiz

UCI's first National Medal of Humanities recipient

Five facts about U.S. immigration you may not know

Courtesy of UCI Chicano/Latino studies, political science and sociology professors

Women's History Month: Anita Casavantes Bradford

First gen champion and scholar

Awesome Anteater

Alumna and former UCI lecturer Lina Kreidie chosen as Fulbright Scholar

Price tag of homelessness in Orange County is nearly $300 million, UCI study finds

UCI sociologists Goldberg and Snow find that a "housing first" approach to homelessness would save OC millions of dollars a year

Divine interventions?

Poli sci Ph.D. alumna earns U.S. Institute of Peace award for dissertation on peacebuilding in faith-based organizations





up-coming events

The Rule of Law in China

Apr 6

Environment, Health and Fengshui

Apr 20

Economic Interdependence and War Workshop

Apr 21-22

The Rule of Law in China
April 6

Normality and Actual Causal Strength
April 7

Financial Inclusion of the Poor
April 8

Exterritory and the Limits of Representation
April 11

Impediments to Claiming Justice: A Comparison of HIV/AIDS Carriers' and Pollution Victims' Legal Complaints
April 13

Articulating Space in Terms of Transformation Groups: Helmholtz and Cassirer
April 14

Mobile Money, Financial Inclusion and Development in Africa
April 19

Environment, Health and Fengshui
April 20

Critical Journalists and the Party: Reinventing Improvised Partnership
April 20

Wave Function Realism in a Relativistic Setting
April 21

Economic Interdependence and War Workshop
April 21-22

A Conversation Between Roxanne Varzi and Peter Sellars
April 25

Down Woodward: Seeing & Disrupting Racial Segregation Through a Youth Photovoice Project
April 26





in the media

Too much experience to be hired? Some older Americans face age bias

Neumark, NPR


Why men still won't get their hands dirty at home

Treas, The Guardian


Reality: The ultimate mind game

Hoffman, CNN


How job hunters can look for age-friendly employers
Neumark, Forbes

Reality: The ultimate mind game
Hoffman, CNN

Fewer Chinese join the job market, but that may be a good thing
Wang Feng, Bloomberg

Why President Trump has been very good for liberals
Tesler, The Washington Post

Virgin America to disappear: What that says about airline travel
Brueckner, Christian Science Monitor

Too much experience to be hired? Some older Americans face age bias
Neumark, NPR

Conservative Darrell Issa turns to the left
Boushey, Orange County Register

UC Irvine professor Vicki Ruiz pioneered the study of Mexican-American women--and isn't done
Ruiz, OC Weekly

Why Warren Buffett is investing in an airline industry he once called a death trap
Brueckner, Los Angeles Times

Next week: Meet the researcher who believes Minecraft is an educational force of nature
Ito, Technically Philly

Sacramento International Airport hopes for service to Asia, Europe
Brueckner, The Sacramento Bee

Why men still won't get their hands dirty at home
Treas, The Guardian

Laser-etched credit and debit cards begin to replace raised-type kind; issuers say they'll last longer
Maurer, Omaha World Herald

Are there lessons for Trump in a notorious California anti-immigrant measure?
DeSipio, Univision

Are millennials affected by outsourcing?
Ranjan, The Huffington Post

Age discrimination is real, especially for women, and new research shows how it's hurting everybody
Neumark, Yahoo! Finance

Former Obama officials become aggressive voices against Trump
Meyer, ABC Washington

Flight school run by Taiwanese airline at Mather Airport trains next generation of pilots
Brueckner, The Sacramento Bee

Age discrimination is alive and well
Neumark, CBS News

Age discrimination prominent in companies' hiring practices, worse for women new study finds
Neumark, KTLA 5

2017's best and worst cities at money management
Maurer, WalletHub

Why older women may have a hard time getting hired
Neumark, The Wall Street Journal

Same topic, different tongue: the American Academy of Arts and Sciences report on language learning
Rumbaut, New America

Will China fill the rights vacuum left by the United States?
Solinger, Pacific Standard


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