UC Berkeley Tops U.S. Public School Rankings

Berkeley CA

10 May, 2021

1:07 PM

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BERKELEY, CA — UC Berkeley took the top spot in a national ranking of public universities. The university also placed fourth overall nationally in the 2021 QS World University Rankings.Harvard, Stanford and MIT took the top three spots, with UCLA behind Berkeley to round out the top five. The four criteria QS World used to determine the rankings were research, learning experience, diversity and internationalism, and employability. As for the top five public universities, after UC Berkeley and UCLA, the University of Michigan ranked 18th, the University of Washington 24th and UC San Diego at 27th. Three other UC campuses made the top 50: UC Davis placed 34th, UC Santa Barbara 43rd and UC Irvine 45th. These latest rankings by the U.K.-based rankings firm evaluated 350 research universities in 49 states. New York state had 74 universities in the rankings. California was the next best performing with 38. QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) specializes in the analysis of higher education institutions.