The Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine is at the forefront of innovation in anthropological research.
The most recent National Research Council assessment of U.S. doctoral programs has
placed UC Irvine's Department of Anthropology near the top of the 82 anthropology
departments surveyed. UCI anthropology was ranked as in the top eight programs in
the nation, ranked closely behind UC Berkeley and UCLA. It is remarkable for a young
sociocultural department to be in the company of such established, larger, four-field
departments. Based on this assessment, the UC Irvine program sits alongside the prestigious
and much larger programs at Harvard, Michigan, Stanford, Chicago, UC Berkeley, UCLA
and UC Davis, outranking some of these programs on many of the measures used in the
NRC assessment. The Department of Anthropology acknowledges that UCI is located on
the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Acjachemen/Juaneño and Tongva
Nation. Learn more . . . •