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In response to
"I think Big 10 would be Michigan. I would have said Stanford for Pac 10. -- nm"
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Dano
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Stanford is great, but here are a few facts about Cal
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Rankings
University rankings (overall)
ARWU World[45] 3rd
ARWU North & Latin America[46] 3rd
USNWR National University[47] 21st
In 2009, U.S. News & World Report ranked Berkeley as the top public university among "National Universities" in the United States.[48]
According to the National Research Council, 35 of 36 Berkeley graduate programs rank in the top 10 in their respective fields.[49] Berkeley is the only university in the nation to achieve top 5 rankings for all of its PhD programs in those disciplines covered by the US News and World Report graduate school survey.[citation needed]
Berkeley's undergraduate program is ranked 1st by The Washington Monthly and 21st among National Universities by U.S. News & World Report .[50] [51] U.S. News ranked the undergraduate programs in engineering and business second in the nation .[52][53] Berkeley ranks 9th among universities that have produced the largest number of living billionaires.[54]
The Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked Berkeley third in 2009 again.[55] In the 2006 international edition of Newsweek, Berkeley was the fifth-ranked global university,[56] and the Center for Measuring University Performance placed Berkeley seventh among national research universities.[57]
The Princeton Review ranks Berkeley as a college with a conscience[58] and the 5th best value in public colleges.[59]
Washington Monthly ranks Berkeley as the University doing the most public good.[60] The rankings were based on social mobility, research done by the University, and service.
The College Sustainability Report Card, published by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, gave Berkeley a B in 2009 for its efforts in environmental sustainability.[61]
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