Mission Statements

The University of California

The University's fundamental missions are teaching, research and public service.  

"The distinctive mission of the University is to serve society as a center of higher learning, providing long-term societal benefits through transmitting advanced knowledge, discovering new knowledge, and functioning as an active working repository of organized knowledge. That obligation, more specifically, includes undergraduate education, graduate and professional education, research, and other kinds of public service, which are shaped and bounded by the central pervasive mission of discovering and advancing knowledge."

— from the University of California Academic Plan, 1974-1978


University of California, Irvine

The Irvine campus's fundamental missions are the same as the University of California's.


The Samueli School of Engineering

We are a research institution of higher learning. Our mission is to advance engineering discovery through the creation of original scholarship and research applied to societal grand challenges, to educate and train the next generation of global engineering innovators, and to provide a technological edge to industry by facilitating technology transfer and talent acquisition.

Each engineering program has published educational objectives and student outcomes that are consistent with the missions and goals of the University of California, UC Irvine and The Henry Samueli School of Engineering.

The following undergraduate majors are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org:

  • Aerospace Engineering (AE) –  The Aerospace Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Aerospace and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.
  • Biomedical Engineering (BME) – The Biomedical Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Bioengineering, Biomedical and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.
  • Chemical Engineering (ChE) – The Chemical Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular, and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.
  • Civil Engineering (CE) – The Civil Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Civil and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.
  • Computer Engineering (CpE) – The Computer Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Electrical, Computer, Communication, Telecommunication(s), and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.
  • Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) – The Computer Science and Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Electrical, Computer, Communication, Telecommunication(s), and Similarly Named Engineering Programs. The Computer Science and Engineering program is accredited by the Computer Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Computer Engineering.
  • Electrical Engineering (EE) – The Electrical Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Electrical, Computer, Communication, Telecommunication(s), and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.
  • Environmental Engineering (EnE) – The Electrical Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Electrical, Computer, Communication, Telecommunication(s), and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.
  • Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) – The Material Science and Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Materials, Metallurgical, Ceramics and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.
  • Mechanical Engineering (ME) – The Mechanical Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Mechanical and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.

The undergraduate major in Biomedical Engineering, Premedical (BMEP), is not designed to be accredited, therefore is not accredited by ABET, http://www.abet.org

Annual student enrollment information can be found here:

Graduation information can be found here:

Please note that annual student enrollment and graduation data for CSE is the sum of the data under both Engineering and Information and Computer Science.