Local colleges receive high marks

Four area colleges -- including three in Riverside -- received high marks in the latest college rankings from U.S. News & World Report.

2001
Carillon Tower - UC Riverside


2005
California Baptist University

UC Riverside, California Baptist University, La Sierra University, all located in Riverside, and the University of Redlands, were each ranked within their respective categories, including:

• UC Riverside -- 86th in "Best National Universities" and 9th in "Up-and-Coming Schools"
• Univ. of Redlands -- 8th "Best Universities -- Master's (West)" and 2nd "Great Schools, Great Prices, Universities -- Master's"
• California Baptist Univ. -- 41st in "Best Universities -- Master's (West)"
• La Sierra Univ. -- 1st in "Racial Diversity, Universities -- Master's (West)"

For UCR, the "Up-and-Coming" ranking validates what many on campus already know, but yet hasn't quite translated into off-campus circles. For example, the newly-appointed dean of UCR's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Thomas Baldwin, told the following to The Press-Enterprise:

Indeed, the ranking should come as no real surprise to those close to UCR, as the campus has consistently ranked among the top universities nationwide over the past decade in receiving Fellows from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the most distinguished honors in the scientific community. In several recent years, UCR has received the most appointments, beating out such stalwarts as MIT, Princeton, Yale, Harvard and UC Berkeley.

Related

• UC Riverside


• University of Redlands


• California Baptist University


• La Sierra University

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