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People Like Us. They Really Do.

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

Where We Rank

• U.S. News & World Report(2011-12) ranked UCR highly in several categories:
  • 6^th in the nation in diversity.
    
  • 25^th on "Great Values, Great Prices" list.
  • 44^th among national public universities.
  • 55^th among Best Undergraduate Business Programs.
  • 82^nd among Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs.
    
  • 97^th overall among 262 national universities, public or private.
  
  A complete list of all UCR's rankings can be found in our campus newsroom.

• Washington Monthly (2011) ranked UCR 5^th in the nation in contributing to the public good. Factors considered in this ranking included social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and service (encouraging students to give something back to their country).

• Leiden University (2011) ranked UCR 29^th in their survey of the 500 top universities worldwide. The Leiden Ranking is based on a sophisticated set of bibliometric indicators that measures the scientific impact of universities and of universities' involvement in scientific collaboration.

• GI Jobs Magazine selected UCR as a "Military Friendly School" for 2011-12. The list recognizes the top 20 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to assist America’s military service members and veterans as students.

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2010-2011) ranked UCR as the 117^th ranked university in the world. The survey of over 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.

• The Princeton Review's America's Best Value Colleges(2009) named UCR among the top 123 Best Western Colleges and one of America's Best Value Colleges. UCR was lauded for:
  • Academics
    • Small class sizes
    • Helpful and friendly professors
    • Strong pre-medical education
    • Popular majors including: biology, biological sciences, business administration, and psychology
  • The student body
    • UCR’s student body is one of the most diverse in the nation.
    • The campus features clubs and organizations that serve as a uniting influence for a student body from differing backgrounds, providing "forums for the expression and understanding of these differences."

• Forbes Magazine (2009) cited rankings by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity that placed UCR as the 25^th Best College Buy in America.
• The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program (2008) recognized UCR as one of the top-10 schools in the nation with the highest number of students receiving Gilman Study Abroad Scholarships during the Fall 2008 and Academic Year 2008-2009 application period.
• The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (2007), ranks academic programs at research universities based on per-capita scholarly accomplishments among professors within departments offering Ph.D.s. Using this index, UCR's environmental sciences program ranked 3^rd in the nation and the soil science program offered by the Department of Environmental Sciences ranked 4^th. Other top-10 rankings included:
  • 4^th in entomology
  • 5^th in natural resources and conservation
  • 10^th in plant pathology
  • 10^th in botany and plant biology
• The Institute for Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University(2010) ranked UCR in the 101 to 150 group among the top 500 universities worldwide. Universities were ranked by indicators of academic or research performance, including:
  • Alumni and faculty receiving Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals
  • Highly-cited researchers
  • Articles published in Nature and Science and indexed in major citation indices
  • The university's per-capita academic performance
• The Center for Measuring University Performance, in its 2007 Annual Report of the Top American Research Universities ranked UCR:
  • 87^th among public universities and 130^th overall in faculty awards
  • 37^th among public universities and 64^th overall in postdoctoral appointees
  • 66^th among public universities and 97^th overall in doctorates awarded
  • 78^th among public universities and 113^th overall in total research
• The Philosophical Gourmet Report(2006–08) — a ranking of graduate programs in philosophy in the English-speaking world — ranked UCR:
  • 1^st in the Philosophy of Action specialty area
  • 31^st in the U.S. for its faculty
  • 40^th of the top 50 faculties in the English-speaking world
• The Center for a Public Anthropology's National Rankings of Public Outreach (2006) ranked the UCR Department of Anthropology 24^th in terms of public outreach.
• Bourns College of Engineering is ranked 65^thoverall among 351 engineering programs by U.S. News & World Report. Furthermore, the magazine ranks BCOE:
  • 35^th among public schools of engineering
  • 39^th in environmental engineering
  • 53^rd in chemical engineering
  • 57^th in electrical engineering
  • 58^th in computer engineering
  • 100^th among national undergraduate engineering programs
• Based on the 2009 US News rankings, the Graduate School of Education is the best of its size on the west coast and 3^rd best among all Southern California schools.