Category Archives: UC Berkeley

Top 20 US Universities and Top California Universities in US News 2020 Rankings

Top 20 US Universities and top California Universities in US News & World Report 2020 Rankings Repeated numbers are ties.  Otherwise, we do not note when there are ties. 1 Princeton 2 Harvard 3 Columbia 3 MIT 3 Yale 6 … Continue reading

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Top 10 US Public Universities, and top California Universities in US News 2020 Rankings

Top 10 US Public Universities, and top California Universities in US News 2020 Rankings WE present the top 10 public colleges and leading California universities in the US News & World Report 2020 Rankings.  Repeated numbers are ties.  We do … Continue reading

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Comparison of Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UCLA in Times Higher Education Scores

In order to see what other California Universities have to aspire to to reach the top 20 worldwide, we compare Stanford (ranked 3rd), UC Berkeley (ranked 15th), and UCLA (ranked 17th).  Sorry, Cal Tech, we are just concerned with general … Continue reading

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Top World and UC Rankings in the Physical Sciences

Top World and UC Rankings in Physical Sciences We present the top 10 world universities and the UC campuses in the Physical Sciences, in the WSJ/THE Times Higher Education rankings. 1 Princeton 2 MIT 3 Stanford 4 Harvard 5 U. … Continue reading

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Notes on the Global Climate Action Summit, Day 2

Notes on the Global Climate Action Summit, Day 2 The YouTube video is at https://youtu.be/en9cDvXWPtw This is a long set of notes, but the video is seven hours long. High-Level Thematic Dialogues The Ocean-Climate Challenge Julie Packard, Executive Director of … Continue reading

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Trump’s Bias Towards Elite Law Schools

Trump’s Bias Towards Elite Law Schools Yesterday, Trump was on TV News telling has core that they are the Elite. Or at least Trump, because he is rich and has a bigger yacht. We know Trump feeds the conservative rural … Continue reading

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How Much Does Trump Hate California? Let Us Count the Ways

How Much Does Trump Hate California? Let Us Count the Ways (Apologies to William Shakespeare) First of all, which state could harbor the three million undocumented and potential illegal voters that Trump dreams that he lost by. California not only … Continue reading

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US Graduate Students and the Effect of the Trump Tax Increase on Them

US Graduate Students and the Effect of the Trump Tax Increase on Them Update:  The final tax bill, after reconciliation between the House and Senate, has wisely dropped the taxation of graduate student tuition wavers. In 2015, 319,000 first time … Continue reading

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International College Students in the US

A major increase in American education is the influx of college and high school students from other countries. They help our financing of colleges since they pay tuition at private colleges or a high out-of-state tuition at public universities. They … Continue reading

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California Universities in the Times Higher Education World Rankings, 2018

We cite the California Universities in the Times Higher Education World Rankings for 2018.  An = in the rankings mean a tie for that rank.  We also list the student/staff ratio for that University.  I assume staff means teaching staff. … Continue reading

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