UC Riverside

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

• Washington Monthly (2009) ranked UCR 16^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).

• U.S. News & World Report (2010) ranked UCR in several categories out of more than 1,900 schools:
  • 5^th in the nation in the category of most diverse universities
  • 13^th in the nation in the category of economic diversity
  • 43^rd among the best national public universities
  • 57^th for undergraduate business programs
  • 85^th for undergraduate engineering programs (Bourns College of Engineering)
  • 96^th among best national universities, public or private

• 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 (2006) ranked UCR in the 102 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
• Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine ranked UCR the 100^th Best Value in Public Higher Education in the nation.
• 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^th overall 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.