University of California Ranking Comparison
68The University of California (UC) is a top leading public university system in the U.S. state of California. It has over 200000 students in ten campuses throughout the state. Its first campus is the University of California, Berkeley (founded in 1868).
The University of California and most of its campuses are consistently ranked among the best institutions nationally and internationally. According to the US News & World Report Best Colleges 2009 issue, UC Riverside is ranked 9th, UC Irvine at 14th and UC San Diego at 14th in its "up and coming universities" to watch for rankings.
In the U.S. News & World Report 2010 rankings, the highest ranked UC campus in the public and private category is UC Berkeley – ranked 21st among 262 public and private "national universities", followed by University of California, Los Angeles (24th), and UC San Diego (35th). Both UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara are placed joint 42nd nationally. Following are the ranking profiles of some of the best ranking campuses:
University of California, Berkeley - ranked second best in the country for its Undergraduate Engineering programs, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2010 undergraduate rankings. It is placed in the Top five for the following undergraduate departments: No. 1 for Civil, No. 2 for Environmental, No. 2 for Mechanical, No. 2 for Computer Engineering, No. 3 for Engineering Science/Engineering Physics, No. 3 for Materials, No. 4 for Electrical, No. 4 for Nuclear, and No. 5 for Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering.
University of California, Davis – it is rated 42nd among the top 4000 universities in the world by the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities in 2008.
University of California, Los Angeles – rated 30th in the Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings 2008.
University of California, San Diego – rated the second best university in the nation by the Washington Monthly’s College Guide 2007. It is also selected as the "Hottest" science school by Newsweek.
University of California, Santa Barbara – rated 36th among the world’s best institutions in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2008.
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