Rankings Archives - Berkeley Graduate Division

July 11, 2012

As others see us: the view through rankings

Start-up days: South Hall and North Hall, circa 1874 UC Berkeley wasn’t always what you see today. In 1868, and for some years thereafter, it was just a start-up. Now, after 144 years of climbing and accomplishment, Berkeley is, by a wide spectrum of measures, a world leader.

March 17, 2011

Rankings: Berkeley’s not only super, it’s the greenest

UC Berkeley is a member of a totally informal yet stratospherically exclusive club, an elite “supergroup” of six universities worldwide that are regarded head and shoulders above the rest of the throng. (The others are Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, Stanford, and Oxford.)

Image of rankings graph of US News and World Report, and other ranking agencies

October 19, 2010

Other rankings — To be (measured) is to be perceived (quantitatively, qualitatively, and through a variety of lenses)

In an August 29 feature entitled "30 Ways to Rate a College" for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Alex Richards and Ron Coddington created a clear and revealing interactive map to the major rankings showing what measures are important to each rater — and how few they actually have in common.