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Visiting UC Irvine depends on a number of factors, including the season, your schedule, and a lot of uncontrollable variables. We recommend you visit UC Irvine twice if you’re serious about enrolling – at least one visit should be when students are on campus and school is in session. Be sure to take note of the town of Irvine as well. Remember that Irvine is also catering to 25245 students, so think critically about whether the community would feel too big or too small for your personal liking.

Where do families stay when they visit UC Irvine ?

The UC Irvine admissions office likely has a list of accommodations they recommend. In addition to that list, consult the CampusReel VR feature to explore hotels nearby in Irvine. For your convenience, below is a list of hotels to consider and that you can also preview in CampusReel VR.

• Hotel Irvine at UC Irvine
• Hilton Irvine/Orange County Airport at UC Irvine
• Irvine Marriott at UC Irvine
• Wyndham Irvine-Orange County Airport at UC Irvine
• Embassy Suites by Hilton Irvine Orange County Airport at UC Irvine
• Star Inn at UC Irvine
• Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort & Marina at UC Irvine
• Island Hotel at UC Irvine
• Courtyard by Marriott Irvine John Wayne Airport/Orange County at UC Irvine
• Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa at UC Irvine
• AC Hotel by Marriott Irvine at UC Irvine
• Ayres Hotel Costa Mesa/Newport Beach at UC Irvine
• Newport Beach Marriott Bayview at UC Irvine
• Hilton Garden Inn Irvine/Orange County Airport at UC Irvine
• Best Western Plus Newport Mesa Inn at UC Irvine
• Hyatt Regency Newport Beach at UC Irvine
• Hyatt House Irvine/John Wayne Airport at UC Irvine
• Residence Inn by Marriott Costa Mesa Newport Beach at UC Irvine
• Renaissance Newport Beach Hotel at UC Irvine
• Hyatt Regency John Wayne Airport Newport Beach at UC Irvine
• Extended Stay America Orange County - John Wayne Airport at UC Irvine
• Atrium Hotel at UC Irvine
• Park Plaza at UC Irvine
• Crowne plaza costa mesa at UC Irvine
• Marriott at UC Irvine
• Residence Inn by Marriott Irvine John Wayne Airport/Orange County at UC Irvine
• Wyndham at UC Irvine
• Modern Beach - Three Bedroom Home at UC Irvine
• Crowne Plaza Costa Mesa Orange County at UC Irvine
• Balboa Inn at UC Irvine
• Regency Inn at UC Irvine
• Hampton Inn & Suites Irvine-Orange County Airport at UC Irvine
• Balboa Island Hotel at UC Irvine
• Fashion Island Hotel Newport Beach at UC Irvine
• Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa at UC Irvine
• Travelodge by Wyndham Orange County Airport/ Costa Mesa at UC Irvine

What do families do in Irvine when they visit UC Irvine ?

It depends but there are a variety of activities and things to do in and around Irvine. We recommend using the virtual immersion tab on CampusReel to take a tour at UC Irvine and see for yourself how the student make use of Irvine.

What buildings should I look at when I visit UC Irvine ?

For your convenience, below is a list of all buildings that you can visit from CampusReel. We encourage you to compare you experience of the buildings on CampusReel with your in-person visit if you decide to take one.

• UCI Student Center & Event Services at UC Irvine
• Campus-University Center at UC Irvine
• Ayala Science Library at UC Irvine
• Engineering Gateway at UC Irvine
• Mesa Court at UC Irvine
• The Anteatery at UC Irvine
• Edwards University Town Center 6 at UC Irvine
• Bren Events Center at UC Irvine
• Phoenix Food Court at UC Irvine
• Mesa Court Housing at UC Irvine
• Infinity Fountain at UC Irvine
• Anteater Learning Pavilion (ALP) at UC Irvine
• Aldrich Park at UC Irvine
• Anteater Recreation Center at UC Irvine
• University of California Irvine at UC Irvine
• Langson Library at UC Irvine
• Robert Cohen Theater & Dance Studios at UC Irvine
• Aldrich Hall at UC Irvine
• The Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine
• UCI Libraries Gateway Study Center at UC Irvine
• Classroom and Office Building (UCI-COB) at UC Irvine
• Berkeley & Columbia Court Apartment Homes at UC Irvine
• Middle Earth - Quenya Hall at UC Irvine
• Campus Plaza at UC Irvine
• Pippin Commons at UC Irvine
• Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine

Check out these related virtual tours:

• Visit to California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
• Visit to California State University-Fullerton (CSUF)
• Visit to California State University-Long Beach (CSULB)
• Visit to University of California-Davis (UCD)
• Visit to University of California-San Diego (UC San Diego)

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How to Choose Colleges With Virtual Tours

A guide to some of the tour sites that aim to help students feel as if they are walking around campuses without leaving home.

By Donna De La Cruz

With college campuses closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, free virtual tours have grown in popularity . High school juniors hoping to begin college in the fall of 2021 are not able to visit campuses in person, but they and their families have many ways to explore their options while staying safe at home.

Here is a guide to some of the tour sites that aim to help students feel as if they are walking around campuses. They can visit as many colleges as they like, without the cost of a road trip or the aching feet.

If you are just getting started on the college admissions process:

The National Association for College Admission Counseling provides information from more than 1,000 colleges and universities on changes to admissions processes resulting from the pandemic. The tool lets students get an overview of resources available at each institution, including links to virtual tours offered, said the association’s president, Jayne Caflin Fonash. “If someone only wants to know about schools in a certain state, or is only interested in finding out about standardized testing policies for the fall, they can drill down to get that information,” Dr. Fonash said.

StriveScan is offering the Strive Virtual College Exploration program through May 8 to take the place of in-person college fairs. Students get advice on how to write a college essay, apply for financial aid, and the chance to ask questions to officials from more than 450 colleges from 45 states and 13 countries — Canada, Britain, Ireland, Italy, France, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Australia and Mexico. All sessions are taped, allowing students to download them. StriveScan’s president, Dan Saavedra, said more presentations will be held in the coming weeks, including one focusing on STEM schools and another on small, private liberal arts schools.

If you are ready to start touring:

There are several websites that allow students to tour and compare schools. These sites offer interactive maps, photos, videos and testimonials.

CampusTours offers tours of more than 1,800 schools in the United States as well as tours of schools in the United Kingdom, Canada, China and France. Its advanced search feature allows students to fine-tune details they are searching for, such as how much tuition they want to pay. About 100 schools offer insights from enrolled students during parts of the tour on campus life, the company’s president, Christopher Carson, said. CampusTours is also working on a feature to allow students to ask questions while they are on the tour that are sent to college officials, he added.

YouVisit offers tours of more than 600 U.S. schools. The tours offer prompts that pop up asking students for input that is sent to college officials to respond, an attempt to replicate the questions and answers that come up during in-person tours. YouVisit also offers students to tour using “virtual reality” tools. “There is nothing that replaces that in-person experience that makes a student fall in love with a campus, but the goal of a virtual tour is to do as much as it can to replace those moments,” said Emily Bauer, vice president for agency services for EAB, the education research and technology company that owns YouVisit.

If you want to attend a Historically Black College or University:

The Chicago HBCU Alumni Alliance is offering virtual fairs in which nearly 50 H.B.C.U.s give students information on admissions, programs and scholarships. Videotapes of the events will be available on the alliance’s website in the coming weeks. The alliance’s president, Danielle James, said more virtual fairs are planned for the summer.

StriveScan also featured presentations from several H.B.C.U.s.

Other virtual tour sites include:

YoUniversity : Students can click on tabs such as “safest campuses,” “most diverse campuses” and “top academic colleges,” as well as “best campus food” and “coolest dorms.”

CampusReel : Students enrolled at colleges can upload their videos to this site for sharing, after being vetted. Students or parents must register to join.

If you want to take a gap year:

The Gap Year Association offers videos on what it means to take a gap year and is building a new student membership platform — a nominal fee will be required to join — that will give students access to weekly calls to learn about gap year opportunities, said the association’s executive director, Ethan Knight. The website also offers information on accredited gap year programs and counselors.

If you want to play sports in college:

Virtual tours, like the ones at YouVisit , can put students in the stands or on the playing field to get a simulated experience of being an athlete there. CampusTours has a feature that lets students find sports offered at various schools.

After you’ve narrowed down your list:

This is the time to start making personal outreach to schools, Mr. Carson of CampusTours said. “You can’t rely on virtual tours to tell you everything about the institution, you need to reach out to the schools themselves.” Traditionally, students have been told that some colleges rank in-person visits as a show of “demonstrated interest.” This year that could take different forms, like emailing professors and admissions officers or attending Zoom meetings. “Demonstrated interest is very valuable,” Mr. Carson said. “Make personalized phone calls and write emails.”

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YouVisit uses Oculus Rift to bring college campuses to prospective students

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Allen Weiner

Posted on Aug 8, 2014   Updated on May 30, 2021, 7:28 pm CDT

The money train that leads from high school to college begins long before the first day of class. Prior to even paying that first tuition bill, traveling to campus tours and application fees easily mount up. Plenty of students and parents have become bullish on the idea of college tours entirely.

But what if you could dramatically cut that cost? What if you could preview everything a college has to offer—from dorms to dining halls—with 360-degree views? What if virtual reality could bring a campus to you? New York and Florida-based YouVisit has been in the virtual college tour business for five years, and the company believes its work with the Oculus Rift platform (which is not yet available for general consumer use) will take the experience to a new level.

The VR version of YouVisit will allow students to go even further into their pre-college exploration while allowing colleges to market themselves in a new, differentiated way. YouVisit has made 1,000 of its tours available for viewing via Oculus Rift which schools use as a replacement for handing our glossy brochures. College recruiters take the Oculus Rift headset on the road to high schools and other marketing events and give students and parents the opportunity to put on the headgear and be taken away to the ivy-covered walls of Ohio State, Stanford University, or thousands of other schools around the world.

“The VR technology and interface are so novel and intuitive that the headset itself is exciting, regardless of the content,” Mark Dunn, Director of Outreach & Recruitment, Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Yale University, tells the Daily Dot. “Matching up such a cool, seemingly futuristic technological experience with Yale’s neo-gothic campus might seem like a strange combination, but I found they fit.”

“We go into the areas students don’t have time to visit or access to on a typical college tours, YouVisit founder and CEO Abi Mandelbaum tells the Daily Dot. “Students today want more of the real experience. The virtual experience not only takes prospective students through the usual campus landmarks such as the student union and football stadium, it goes inside a dorm room and dining hall—two things high schoolers want to see before they click to schedule a physical on-campus visit.” YouVisit’s CEO says company data reveals 30 percent of those who take the virtual tour schedule a trip to see the school up close and personal. “The augmented reality version of YouVisit will take those tours to an entirely new, immersive level,” adds Mandelbaum.

Mandelbaum, a native of Colombia, and his cofounders from Jordan and Albania, were students at Brandeis University when they had their “had to be a better way” moment. The trio realized it was difficult for international students to get the information needed to make the right decision to inform their choice to study abroad. As a result, Mandelbaum saw that many of his international student peers were transferring to other schools in search of a better college experience.

In the course of the year after their “aha” moment, Mandelbaum and his colleagues built a virtual walking tour, which they pitched to a number of schools that were taken with the idea. As with many other businesses, colleges are trying to do more marketing on tighter budgets, so the idea of showcasing their institutions in a visually rich, highly scalable manner is appealing. The schools partner with the YouVisit team, collaborating on everything from scheduling the shoot to analyzing results from those who “visit” using the technology.

For higher-education institutions, wanting to capitalize on areas of specific specialty (for example, an engineering school whose chemistry lab has conducted some well-known research) can be a focal point of the tour, or in Yale’s case, create a separate tour for five different schools within its university system. For coaches of university sports teams, providing a YouVisit tour can be a recruiting tool, helping them show off what their campus has to offer (i.e., multimillion-dollar training facility or dorms with en-suite bathrooms). Danielle O’Banion, Kent State University basketball coach, uses Twitter to invite student athletes (and others) to see what her school has to offer.

Take a tour of @kentstate by clicking here: https://t.co/VgKpwKav5i . It’s the perfect virtual workout! #GoFlashes — Danielle O’Banion (@DJOBanion) July 17, 2014

To create marketing efficiency, Minnesota Online , which represents 31 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, embeds a tweet to its feed, allowing students to tour a diverse set of in-state schools.

Did you know you can take full virtual tours of @MSUMoorhead , @stcloudstate & @SMSUStangs ? https://t.co/GHzY8urDnx #YouVisit — Minnesota Online (@MinnesotaOnline) July 14, 2014

Perhaps what makes YouVisit most attractive is that it can cheaply help revolutionize a market that is suffering. The budget crises for colleges is very real, and asking students to invest more in up-front costs is nearly impossible, and it’s creating a vicious cycle that hurts the university system. For instance Wisconsin is unable to meet the needs of 41,000 aid-eligible students due to budget shortfalls. The pressure grows for marketing departments at colleges and universities to attract more students using new tech-enabled tools can scale at a lower cost. YouVisit’s ability to inform prospective students while allowing higher education institutions to efficiently showcase their wares could be a win-win for everyone involved.

Illustration by Max Fleishman 

Allen Weiner has been a market research analyst in the area of new media and technology since 1994. He’s worked as writer, publisher and newspaper executive. He is the co-founder and publisher of Kombucha Network and the former managing vice president of Gartner.  

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Student Displays Pilot Program Launches to Showcase Student Creativity

Now through May 31, 2024, the exhibit Healing and (Re)Building Connection Through Art will be on display in Langson Library. The first installation in the UCI Libraries’ Student Displays Pilot Program , the student exhibit features artwork inspired by a fall 2023 UC Irvine travel course to Mexico on undocumented immigrant experiences taught by Laura E. Enriquez, UCI associate professor of Chicano/Latino studies. 

The trip was the fourth organized by Enriquez in collaboration with the Building Binational Bridges program and the UCI DREAM Center . It was supported by the UC Alianza MX , Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships, UCI Study Abroad Center, Center for Educational Partnerships, and other campus resources.

Eleven immigration-impacted students (undergrads and grad students) expanded on an autoethnographic project to document their experiences traveling to Mexico. Their project explores three questions: 

• What wounds has the border inflicted on immigration-impacted young adults – undocumented and US citizens alike?
• What does it look and feel like to cross borders and engage in healing in the borderlands?
• What is the impact of engaging in such healing journeys for immigration-impacted young adults and their families? 

The Langson display, designed and installed by the UCI students, features scrapbook pages, poems, photos, and art that document their experiences and engage in these questions with the intention of healing themselves and others from the wounds inflicted by immigration policies.

Contributors to the display include UCI students Giovanna Itzel, Kitana Carbajal Juarez, Erica Chacon Cabadas, Breana Figueroa Perez, Melissa Martinez, Jacqueline Marquez-Ornelas, Citlali Rodriguez, Lexi Romero, Aransa Sanchez, Katherine Trujillo Salazar, and Dahana Urrea Cruz; Prof. Enriquez; and artists-in-residence and community partners Madai Zamora and Baruck Racine.

About the UCI Libraries Student Displays Pilot Program

Launched in spring 2024, the UCI Libraries’ Student Displays Pilot Program shares the work and creativity of UCI students with the UCI and local community. Temporary displays in UCI's Langson and Science Libraries, created by students, can include original student art, writing, research, and more in both physical and digital formats.

Proposals are welcome from UCI students, student organizations, faculty, and staff. 

To learn more about the program, see our program guidelines and proposal form and visit our program FAQs .  

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