There are new accolades for UC Santa Barbara, yet more proof that the university is among “America’s Best Colleges.” U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings were released this week, and UCSB once again made its list of “Top 30 Public National Universities” as well as its list of “Best National Universities.”
UCSB was ranked No. 11 on the Top 30 list, sharing the spot with the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Among national universities, which include both public and private institutions, UCSB held steady at No. 41. It tied for the spot with Boston University, Lehigh University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The national universities category includes only institutions that emphasize faculty research and offer a range of undergraduate programs in addition to master's degree and doctoral programs.
In a separate category for graduate schools, UCSB’s grad programs ranked highly. For example, U.S. News ranked UCSB No. 20 on its Best Engineering Schools list. And the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education is No. 40 among Education graduate schools.
Six of UCSB’s Social Sciences and Humanities grad programs made the list: Economics is No. 42; English, No. 26; History, 42; Political Science, 50; Psychology, 40; and Sociology, 31.
For more information, read the Office of Public Affairs and Communications news release.
To see the complete U.S. News & World Report rankings and get more information about the “America’s Best Colleges” 2014 guidebook, visit U.S. News’ Best Colleges page.