Why Graduate Education at Berkeley Matters Graduate Dean Andrew Szeri discusses why and how our academic enterprise matters to the state of California, the U.S., everywhere.
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.)
National Research Council ranks UC Berkeley’s Ph.D. programs among nation’s best The first detailed survey since 1995 of doctoral programs at the nation's research universities shows that the University of California, Berkeley, continues to have the largest number of highly ranked graduate programs in the country.
UC Berkeley among top of recently released NRC rankings The National Research Council's Data Based Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs has been released. Berkeley did very well in the assessment, with illustrative rankings that put many of our programs at or near the top.
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.
UC Berkeley is at or near the top in recent rankings of universities in the U.S. and the world The academic reputation of this campus continues to gleam among its counterparts in this country and around the globe, according to recent independent assessments.