It ranked 235th in the QS World University Ranking in 2023 and 232nd in the QS World University Ranking in 2022. University of California, Irvine, referred to as "UC Irvine" and "UCI", also translated as University of California, Irvine or Irvine, was founded in 1965. It belongs to the University of California system, is a public research university, and is a member of the association of american universities, the Pacific Rim University Alliance and the International Public University Forum, and is known as the "public Ivy". The University of California, Irvine, has eight Nobel Prize winners and seven Pulitzer Prize winners, ranking 34th among the best universities in America in 2023 and 7th among the public universities in America in 2065 438+09. 20 19 Washington Monthly ranked the best universities in the United States with 18.