UCR climbs 73 positions in Wall Street Journal rankings
UC Riverside has been ranked No. 12 in the nation for social mobility by the Wall Street Journal in rankings released this week. The social mobility ranking factors graduation rate, post-graduation salaries, and return on investment. For graduation rate, UCR scored 98 out of a possible 100. The Journal’s 2025...
Forbes ranks UC Riverside as a leading public university
UC Riverside is the No. 37 public university in a 2024-25 college ranking from Forbes magazine. The methodology for the Forbes America’s Top Colleges list relies on data from the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and the College Scorecard; the Seattle-based software and data company Payscale, which tracks graduates’...
UCR among top U.S. universities serving low-income students
UC Riverside is the No. 16 university in the country for its Pell Grant student performance, according to Washington Monthly’s newly released 2024 National University rankings. The accolade notes UCR’s Pell performance in several categories including that it is among the top 20 universities for the number of Pell Grant...
UCR has the most California admitted students of any UC campus
UC Riverside admitted the most California first-year students for fall 2024 of any University of California campus, according to numbers released by the UC system on July 31.
Money magazine rankings put UC Riverside in top tier
UC Riverside is one of only 54 universities to receive a 5-star ranking in Money magazine’s 2024 list of Best Colleges . It placed UCR in the top tier of the Money rankings, with a half-star improvement over the 2023 rankings, and in the top 7.2% of universities ranked nationwide...
UCR joins group of leaders in tech partnerships, innovation
In recognition of UC Riverside’s commitment to economic engagement, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, or APLU, has designated UCR as an Innovation & Economic Prosperity, or IEP, university. The national designation acknowledges public research universities that support economic development through innovation and entrepreneurship, technology transfer, talent and workforce...
Campus sets new record for first-year applications
UC Riverside has set a record for first-year applications for fall 2024, with 57,240, according to numbers released March 6 from the UC Office of the President. The previous UCR record was set this past year, when 56,462 first-year students applied for fall quarter 2023. Overall applications to the University...
UCR has among the most Fulbright winners in the U.S.
UC Riverside is among the top Fulbright scholar-producing universities in 2023-24, according to an announcement this week by the U.S. State Department. UCR also has the most Fulbright faculty recipients of any University of California campus for 2023-24. The Fulbright Program, founded in 1946, includes a monetary award from the...
Designation acknowledges UCR's community engagement
UC Riverside has received the 2024 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement. The announcement was made Jan. 8 by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The designation recognizes UCR’s strong community-engaged research, as well as collaborations with area schools, non-profit organizations, businesses...
A look back at UCR's top stories in 2023
UC Riverside joined the Big Leagues of United States research universities – the Association of American Universities — in 2023 and, out of the gate, the headlines on UCR’s news pages affirmed why it was invited to join. As we draw the curtain on the calendar year, here’s a “Top...