We show the top ten World Universities, which include three California ones, and then the rankings of the other main research universities in California. Where universities are tied, we use an equal sign. The ranking is among 1,799 world universities which were ranked.
1. U. Of Oxford
2. Harvard U.
=3. U. Of Cambridge
=3. Stanford U.
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6. California Institute of Technology
7. Princeton U.
8. UC Berkeley
9. Yale U.
10. Imperial College, London
21. UC Los Angeles
32. UC San Diego
63. UC Davis
64. UC Santa Barbara
65. U. Of Southern California
=95. UC Irvine
=192. UC Santa Cruz
251-300. UC Riverside
301-350. UC Merced
601-800. San Diego State
We see that California has numbers 3, 6, and 8. Also, six of the UC campuses rank in the top 100.