Top World and University of California Rankings in the WSJ/THE Rankings

Top World Universities, and the University of California Rankings in the WSJ/THE Times Higher Education Rankings

The United States spends 13.59% on education, of which 27.5%, or 3.74% of the total spending, is on higher education.

We list the 20 top world-wide rankings of Universities, and then add the rankings of the rest of the UC campuses.  Stanford (rank 3), UC Berkeley (rank 15), and UCLA (rank 17) are included in the top twenty. 

1 U. Oxford

2 U. Cambridge

3 Stanford

4 MIT

5 Cal Tech

6 Harvard

7 Princeton

8 Yale

9 Imperial College, London

10 U. Chicago

11 ETH Zurich

12 (tied) John Hopkins

12 (tied) U. Pennsylvania 

14 UCL, UK

15 UC Berkeley

16 Columbia

17 UCLA 

18 Duke

19 Cornell

20 U. Michigan – Ann Arbor

30 UC San Diego

52 UC Santa Barbara

59 (tied) UC Davis

66 USC

96 (tied) UC Irvine

167 UC Santa Cruz

201-250 UC Riverside

351-400 UC Merced

About Dennis SILVERMAN

I am a retired Professor of Physics and Astronomy at U C Irvine. For two decades I have been active in learning about energy and the environment, and in reporting on those topics for a decade. For the last four years I have added science policy. Lately, I have been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic of our times.
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