University of California-Irvine Top Questions

The food options and on-campus housing options are bad: the food is very unhealthy and there are hardly any vegan and vegetarian options, and on-campus housing barely accepts anyone. The quarter system is also not condusive to a good learning environment.

The brand new student center seems to need some breaking in. In the evenings, the pub is great, and during the day Starbucks is a great meeting/study spot. But those are the main draws to the general area; the stale, unmovable furniture and mediocre food make it more a passageway than a center.

Some of the fees included in the tuition are a little over-the-top.

Not enough school spirit and student body involvement

The worse part about this school is that it is a communter school so its rather difficult to make friends. To be honest there is not much do in Irvine itself. Another downside is that they lack a football team.

The general lack of school spirit! People who come here are ashamed or disappointed they ended up here and are very negative about it. But, I believe the experience is what you make of it.

far from home

There is hardly any diversity, which makes it hard for those students who don't quite fit in to feel comfortable.

It's so hard to get the classes you want! It also sucks not having a car here because there are not a lot of things to do close to campus.

The school is extremely wasteful because they use drinking water to water the lawn and there are much left over food that gets thrown away at the cafeterias.

Lack of student life during the weekends; the accommodation demanded by the school of the surrounding area. School was made to be a comuter school and now the are working on changing that; but the surrounding area is not college-friendly as far as prices and interesting things for students under 21

Phone receptions in particular areas are horrible. Many have Verizon and they experience less problems. However, people like me, who has T-mobile, should expect to get cut off during conversation very often. It's very hard to keep in contact with parents and friends who attend different colleges.

The social life, especially on the weekends. All of the parties here on thursday, so I can't go to any of them because I always have early friday classes. Even though a good portion of the students live on campus, they go home on the weekends, so it makes this place seems like a commutor school. It's completely dead on the weekends or break.s.

It seems like there is not a whole lot to do in the surrounding areas of the school. To have a good social life, you have to be extremely involved with school activities, so you can network and meet new people. The school is great, but the city is kind of dead if you dont know anyone.

It doesnt have a lot of school spirit or pride. Most of the people here don't really want to be here because Irvine was not their first choice. Were a bunch of people who almost made it to a "good college."

The school emphasizes "practical" education so much that people don't even know how good our non-science and engineering programs are. I'm in my third year here and still find out new things about programs here.

No diversity!

It is not necessarily the "worst" thing about the school, but there are many social events. One must learn to balance both social, and school life to be successful.

boring social life if one is not invovled in fraternities or soroities. cheating is epidemic in classes where students know professors are negligent.

UCI is a very commuter school. Therefore many people go home for the weekend. But if you are here on the weekends, it is very boring because all students like to do is party. Unless that is what you like to do. To go to these parties one must be affiliated with a sorority or fraternity. It is hard finding jobs in Irvine because of the limited jobs available. Apartments around irvine are very expensive.