Meta Description: Looking for a quick guide to institutions of higher education in Orange County, California? Read on for our list of the area’s colleges and universities.
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Orange County is Home to Many Colleges and Universities
Orange County, California is known for a great many things. But, beyond the amusement parks, citrus oranges, golf courses, and resorts there is a community that seems to almost specialize in higher education. Read on for our abridged list of the public and private, secular and religious, two-year and four-year colleges and universities …show more content…
With a student body nearing forty-thousand in number, it is the largest of the twenty-three California state universities and the largest university in the entire state, public or private. With a graduate student population of just over five thousand it is the largest public graduate school and one of the largest over all in the state. The staff numbers nearly two-thousand, of which just over a third are tenure track and offers undergraduate degrees in more than 240 disciplines, more than one hundred courses of study leading to a Master’s degree, and three Doctoral programs.
University of California, Irvine (UCI)
https://uci.edu/
The University of California, Irvine, or UC Irvine, is a public university and a member of the California State University System. It is primarily known as a research University and manages a health care system as well. UC Irvine has more than thirty thousand students and just over a thousand staff members. The university offers undergraduate degrees in eighty disciplines and nearly one hundred graduate and professional degrees. The University also maintains an arboretum and is partially responsible for the University of California Natural Reserve System.
Private Secular Universities
Anaheim