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UC Riverside is regularly recognized as a top institution for higher education in national and international rankings.

Where We Rank as a University

• Leiden University (2013) ranked UCR 35^thin the world and 29^thin North America in their survey of the 500 top universities. The Leiden Ranking is based on a sophisticated set of bibliometric indicators that measures the scientific impact of universities and of their involvement in scientific collaboration. When broken down by fields, UCR ranked:
  
  • 10^th in natural sciences and engineering
  • 79^th in social sciences and humanities.
  • 90^th in biomedical and health sciences.
  • 95^th in life and earth sciences.
  • 170^th in mathematics and computer science.

• U.S. News & World Report(2012–13) ranked UCR highly in several categories:
  • 8^th in the nation in diversity.
  • 24^th on "Best Value Schools."
  • 46^th among top public schools.
  • 101^st overall among 200 national universities, public or private.

• Washington Monthly (2012) ranked UCR 9^th in the nation in contributing to the public good and 1^st in the nation in student service participation. Factors considered in this ranking included social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and Ph.D.s), and service (encouraging students to give something back to their country).

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) conducted by the Center for World Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University(2012) ranked UCR in the 101 to 150 group among the top 500 universities worldwide and 54 to 67 in the United States. Among 925 institutions, UCR ranks 26^th in papers published (on a per staff basis) in the journals Science and Nature.  Out of 1068 institutions, UCR ranks 37^th in "Highly Cited Researchers" (on a per staff basis). Universities were ranked by indicators of academic or research performance. When broken down by fields, UCR was ranked:
  
  • 51-75 for chemistry.
  • 76-100 for life and agricultural sciences.
  • 101-150 for natural sciences and mathematics.
  • 101-150 for engineering/technology and computer sciences.
  • 101-150 for physics.
  • 151-200 for economics/business.

• The Princeton Review's America's Best Value Colleges (2013) named UCR among the top 121 Best Western Colleges and one of America's 75 Best Value Colleges.

• Several UCR graduate programs received high rankings in the U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools(2014) report, including:
  • Graduate School of Education - 74^th among 118 ranked schools.
  • Bourns College of Engineering - 67^th among 96 ranked schools.
  • English Ph.D. program - 44^th among 49 ranked programs.
  • Psychology Ph.D. program - 63^rd among 77 ranked programs.
  • Biological Sciences Ph.D. program - 56^th among 67 ranked programs.

• The Princeton Review's Guide to 322 Green Colleges (2013) included UCR due to the university's "strong commitment to sustainability in their academic offerings, campus infrastructure, activities and career preparation."

• Kiplinger's Personal Finance (2013) ranked UCR as one of the top-100 Best Values in Public Colleges. UCR placed in the top-100 thanks to its high four-year graduation rate, low average student debt at graduation, abundant financial aid, a low sticker price, and overall great value.

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2011–12) placed UCR as the 143^rd ranked university in the world. The survey of more than 13,000 experienced academics from 131 countries ranked institutions solely on their reputations for teaching and research. The Times Higher Education is the leading higher education news publication in the United Kingdom.

• GI Jobs Magazine selected UCR as a "Military Friendly School" for 2012–13. The list recognizes the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to assist America’s military service members and veterans as students.

• The Center for Measuring University Performance, in its 2011 Annual Report of the Top American Research Universities ranked UCR:
  • 33^rd among public universities and 54^th overall in faculty awards
  • 46^th among public universities and 73^rd overall in postdoctoral appointees.
  • 54^th among public universities and 94^th overall in national academy memberships.
  • 63^rd among public universities and 91^st overall in doctorates awarded.
  • 82^nd among public universities and 119^th overall in total research.

• The National Research Council ranked 27 of UCR's doctoral programs in their 2010 report, demonstrating the campus' progress in research excellence. The report is issued every 15 years.
  

School and Departmental Rankings

• U.S. News & World Report (2012) ranked the Graduate School of Education as 67^th in the nation out of the 250 schools that received rankings.

• The Princeton Review listed the School of Business Administration among the top 296 business schools in the nation and one of the best in the west.

• U.S. News & World Report ranked the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management (within the School of Business Administration) 97^th out of 441 schools.

• Bourns College of Engineering is ranked 64^thoverall by U.S. News & World Report (2012). The ranking is 38^thamong public universities and first among universities of similar size.
  • The Environmental Engineering program 41^st
  • The Bioengineering program 51^st.
  • The Electrical Engineering program was ranked 62^nd

• The Philosophical Gourmet Report(2011), a ranking of graduate programs in philosophy, ranked UCR:
  • 31^st among the faculties in the United States.
  • 38^th among the faculties in the English-speaking world.