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Career test for UC Irvine students

See which careers fit your traits — based on what 471+ UC Irvine alumni actually went on to do.

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What UC Irvine grads actually do

Based on 471 notable UC Irvine alumni with Wikipedia pages. Data: Wikidata (CC0).

university teacher
53
writer
46
actor
35
basketball player
33
association football player
33
novelist
28
screenwriter
23
film actor
23
television actor
23
computer scientist
20
politician
20
film director
16

Notable UC Irvine alumni

Tod Murphy
Tod Murphy
basketball player · basketball coach
Marshall Rose
Marshall Rose
software engineer
Étienne Wenger
Étienne Wenger
consultant · sociologist
David Benioff
David Benioff
film director · novelist
Thuy Trang
Thuy Trang
film actor · actor
Cecily Adams
Cecily Adams
film actor · actor
Aurora Snow
Aurora Snow
journalist · film director
Miguel Ibarra
Miguel Ibarra
association football player

Salary outlook for top UC Irvine career paths

National median annual wage (BLS Occupational Employment Statistics).

writer
10th–90th percentile: $40,900$148,240
$73,690
median / yr
basketball player
10th–90th percentile: $27,730$239,200
$70,280
median / yr
association football player
10th–90th percentile: $27,730$239,200
$70,280
median / yr
novelist
10th–90th percentile: $40,900$148,240
$73,690
median / yr
computer scientist
10th–90th percentile: $81,450$233,110
$145,080
median / yr
politician
10th–90th percentile: $21,010$129,510
$47,290
median / yr

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About UC Irvine

The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and professional degrees, and roughly 30,000 undergraduates and 7,000 graduate students were enrolled at UCI as of Fall 2024. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and had $609.6 million in research and development expenditures in 2023, ranking it 56th nationally. UCI became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996. The university administers the UC Irvine Medical Center, a large teaching hospital in Orange, and its affiliated health sciences system; the University of California, Irvine, Arboretum; and a portion of the University of California Natural Reserve System. UC Irvine set up the first Earth System Science Department in the United States. The university was rated as one of the "Public Ivies" in 1985 and 2001 surveys comparing publicly funded universities the authors claimed provide an education comparable to the Ivy League. The UC Irvine Anteaters currently compete in the NCAA Division I as members of the Big West Conference. As of 2025, alumni, academics, and affiliates of UCI include 5 Nobel Prize laureates, 7 Pulitzer Prize winners, 61 Sloan Research Fellowship recipients, 61 Guggenheim Fellows, and 1 Turing Award winner. In addition, of the current faculty, 24 have been named to the National Academy of Sciences, 7 have been named to the National Academy of Medicine, 17 to the National Academy of Engineering, 40 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 20 to the National Academy of Inventors.

Source: Wikipedia · Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

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