We present the rankings and overall scores for California Universities in the Times Higher Education 2015-16 Global Rankings. The rankings are relative, but are not a measure of intrinsic excellence. So we give the Overall Score on which the relative rankings are based. We also add for the interest of students the Student to Faculty ratio of the top Universities, so that they can judge in which schools they are more likely to have direct interaction with the faculty.
The Overall Score is a combination of the Scores for Teaching, International Outlook, Research, Citations, and Industry Income.
For comparison, we first list the US Universities in the top 16 global rankings, which includes Cal Tech, Stanford, UC Berkeley and UCLA. Then we add the other California Universities in the rankings. When the ranking is preceded by an equal sign, it means that the University was tied for that rank with others with the same overall score.
| Ranking | University | Overall Score | Student to Faculty Ratio |
| 1 | Cal Tech | 95.2 | 6.9 |
| 3 | Stanford | 93.9 | 7.8 |
| 5 | MIT | 92.0 | 9 |
| 6 | Harvard | 91.6 | 8.9 |
| 7 | Princeton | 90.1 | 8.4 |
| 10 | U. of Chicago | 87.9 | 6.9 |
| 11 | Johns Hopkins | 87.6 | 3.6 |
| 12 | Yale U. | 87.4 | 4.4 |
| 13 | UC Berkeley | 87.2 | 16.4 |
| 15 | Columbia U. | 86.1 | 5.9 |
| 16 | UCLA | 85.8 | 10.3 |
| =39 | UC San Diego | 72.2 | 6.5 |
| =39 | UCSB | 72.2 | 27.3 |
| =44 | UC Davis | 71.0 | 13.9 |
| 68 | USC | 65.5 | 12.9 |
| =106 | UC Irvine | 57.7 | 16.1 |
| =144 | UC Santa Cruz | 53.9 | 22.7 |
| =167 | UC Riverside | 51.1 | 22 |
I won’t get into a discussion of how the scoring is done, or what it means, since others in the University know the details and their relative meaning more than I do. I simply note that the California Universities ranked above 40 have Student to Faculty ratios less than 10.3, with the exception of UC Berkeley.
