The School is the largest academic unit in the university with an enrollment of over 5,300 students.
More than a third of the bachelor's degrees conferred at UCI are from the School of Social Sciences.
UC Irvine's School of Social Sciences is also home to several research and educational entities including the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS, headed by Donald G. Saari), the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies (GPACS), the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Center for the Study of Democracy (headed by Bernard Grofman).
[1] The Social Science Tower at UCI was featured in the film Conquest of the Planet of the Apes in 1972.
[1] The school offers 11 undergraduate majors in 7 different departments, each providing a Bachelor of Arts degree.