Judged on faculty quality, UC Berkeley is the best overall graduate institution in the nation and three other California universities rank among the top schools, according to a long-awaited study released Tuesday by the National Research Council. Harvard, Yale and other venerable Eastern schools held their own as usual, but Berkeley, Stanford and UC San Diego placed first, second and 10th among institutions with the highest number of doctoral programs ranked in the top 10 in their field… The 740-page study, which cost $1.2 million and took four years to complete, only solidified UC Berkeley’s already sterling reputation. With 35 of its 36 graduate programs rated among the top 10 in their fields for scholarly quality, that campus was by far the country’s best-rated graduate institution across the board.

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by Amy Wallace, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: September 13th, 1995, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.