Out of 300 colleges, Forbes ranked UC campuses like UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego near the top in their 2017 Best Value College Ranking. The rankings for the UC campuses were made on factors like school quality, the strength of research in programs like STEM, and graduation success. UC Berkeley and UCLA were ranked the highest on Forbes’ list; the complete list of rankings for the UC campuses
If you are a high school student who is fascinated by politics or cultures of different countries, studying international relations could be the right choice for you. The Ivory Tower Survey of 2014 asked scholars around the U.S. what they thought to be the top schools for international relations. Some schools on the list included well-known institutions like Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego. The full list and
In the rankings of the British magazine Times Higher Education, Caltech took the top spot out of all research universities. For its rankings, Times Higher Education considers factors like research income and how much research a university’s faculty publishes. For the rest of Times Higher Education’s rankings, some California schools like Stanford and UC Berkeley placed in the top 10; among the top 100, schools like UC Davis and UC
Recently, the U.S. News released their college rankings for 2015. Which colleges ranked close to the top? Below, you can see the first 10 schools ranked out of other national universities (a national university is defined as a school which offers undergraduate majors and master’s and doctoral programs). Ranking School Name 1 Princeton University 2 Harvard University 3 Yale University 4 Columbia University 4 Stanford University 4 University of Chicago
A better question might be “How useful are college rankings anyways?” A new ranking list from Money magazine has been greeted by some with approval, others with dislike. The list ranks 665 colleges total based on 3 measures: educational quality, affordability, and career outcomes. The New York Times praised Money for additional factors that were included in its rankings. For instance, when judging affordability, instead of sorting colleges by tuition
