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Berkeley and College of Engineering shine in rankings
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Berkeley continues to rank in the upper echelon of universities by both national and international standards, according to the latest round of annual university rankings, with engineering programs on undergraduate and graduate levels taking high honors.
The “ America’s Best Colleges” issue of U.S. News & World Report again ranks Berkeley the top U.S. public university and number 20 among all universities nationally. Shanghai Jiao Tong University puts Berkeley overall in fourth place in the world again this year, behind Harvard, Cambridge, and Stanford, in its annual list of the world’s top 500 universities.
In the U.S. News rankings, the College of Engineering’s undergraduate programs moved up one notch to number two, tying with Stanford, from third place last year. All of Berkeley Engineering’s individual programs were ranked fourth or better nationally except for its newest department, bioengineering, which was established in 1998 and was ranked 13th, up from 16th last year. Graduate engineering programs were ranked third overall in a separate list published last spring.
Princeton Review, which selects its list of the best 361 American colleges based on student surveys, cites Berkeley as one of the “best in the west” for its library and its blending of academics with community service. Princeton’s ranking system avoids a single ranked list, emphasizing that “no school is best for all students,” it says. |
