If you plan to attend a California university, you may want to consider one of the top 10 ranked California colleges as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. The top 10 California colleges are listed here, along with their overall rank in the 2011 National Universities Rankings, as compiled by U.S. News & World Report. The college rankings were produced from data collected from more than 1,800 colleges in America.http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings/state+CA
Additionally, the top 5 California colleges according to the Times Higher Education-Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings 2010 are listed.http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/home
Top 10 California Universities 2011 According to US News
- Stanford University, Stanford, CA (#5)
- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (#7)
- UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (#22)
- USC - University of Southern California, LA, CA (#23)
- UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (#25)
- UCSD, San Diego, CA (#35)
- UC Davis, Davis, CA (#39)
- UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA (#39)
- UC Irvine, Irvine, CA (#41)
- Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA (#53)
US News Best Colleges Methodology
U.S. News gathers data from up to 15 indicators of academic excellence. Each factor is assigned a weight, and then the colleges in each category are ranked against their peers.http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2008/08/21/how-we-calculate-the-rankings.html
Many colleges, however, are unranked and listed separately from the America's Best Colleges list. There are several reasons a college cannot be ranked. For instance, if a college does not use SAT or ACT in admission decisions for first-time, first-year, degree-seeking applicants; if the total enrollment at the college is less than 200 students; there are a large proportion of nontraditional students; or there were no first year students (i.e., "upper-division schools"). In addition, private, for-profit universities, and a few specialized schools in arts, business, and engineering were also not ranked in the America's Best Colleges list.http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2008/08/21/how-we-calculate-the-rankings.html
Top 5 California Universities According to Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2010
- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (#9)
- UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (#28)
- UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (#35)
- UC Davis, Davis, CA (#110)
- USC - University of Southern California, LA, CA (#113)
THE-QS World University Rankings 2010 Methodology
The universities on the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2010 were selected based on a standardized scoring system that employed the following criteria: academic peer review, employer review, citations per faculty, student faculty, international faculty and international students.http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/home
Best Colleges and Universities in 2010
Here is a report from U.S. News and World Report about the best colleges and universities in the U.S. They talk about how to find the best schools, how to get in, and how to pay for tuition. Harvard and Princeton are tied for the best school, followed by Yale at number 3. Watch this video to see which schools made the top 10 best colleges for 2010.
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Fast Facts
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The University of California is a public university system in the state of California.
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The University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges system.
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The UC system includes a combined student body of more than 220,000 students, and more than 170,000 faculty and staff, with more than 1.5 million living alumni.
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The first University of California campus was US Berkeley, which was founded in 1868.
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There are 10 University of California campuses: Berekley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.
