UC system’s global rankings slip amid funding cuts, international competition

The University of California has slipped in the rankings of an annual global survey of higher education, escalating concerns that funding woes and growing international competition are beginning to erode the quality of the nation’s top public research university. The survey released Wednesday by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, assessed nine UC campuses in more than three dozen subjects. Ratings dropped in 80 categories and improved in 24… UC’s funding woes, White said, are beginning to cripple the university’s ability to keep top-notch faculty members from jumping to rivals with deeper pockets.

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by Teresa Watanabe, The Los Angeles Times.

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