U.S. News and World Report

UC Health children's hospitals were recognized on Tuesday for their excellence in various specialties within pediatric care by U.S. News and World Report.

I was stuck: I felt like my only option if I pursued a medical career was going to medical school, but I just knew it wasn’t for me.

UC Berkeley was ranked as the world’s top public university and fourth-best overall in the U.S. News & World Report rankings published Tuesday, with a score of 89.8 on a scale of zero to 100.

Dr. Michael Drake will be the next president of the UC system — the first person of color and the first Black person to hold the position.

UC Berkeley was deemed a shocking “number two” for the best public university in the U.S. ranking. In light of being dethroned, here are other things that UC Berkeley is first for.

The U.S. News & World Report released its 2020 rankings, listing UC Berkeley as the second-best public university in the nation behind UCLA.  

But while UC Berkeley students have a lot to be proud of, it is still incredibly disheartening for the campus to be removed from the nation’s list of top colleges.

U.S. News has been ranking universities within the United States for more than three decades, according to U.S. News chief data strategist Robert Morse.

The ranking was issued by Niche, an organization that synthesizes data from public surveys into more easily digestible rankings, grades and profiles.

For the first time in almost 20 years, UC Berkeley has not achieved the sole title of No. 1 public university in the United States, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report.