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Time magazine ranks UC Berkeley 2nd-best college for transfer students

UC Berkeley was ranked the second-best college for transfer students by a recent article in Time magazine. The UC system and state school system “have a clearly defined pathway for community college ... read more

Rethink college rankings and focus on helping more attain a college credential

To be sure, we as a society benefit from great institutions such as UC Berkeley ... a student’s high school performance is a much stronger predictor of success in transfer-level courses than ... read more

COLLEGE: Rankings have limited effect on prospective students, evidence suggests

On this year’s list, UC Berkeley ... of our admitted students value rankings in their admission decision.” Biochemistry major Elsie Gonzales, 23, of Riverside, said finances were behind her decision ... read more

There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts

And, according to the UC Berkeley ... students’ imaginations). Other research, however, points strongly in the opposite direction. A study of community-college students found that those who had more ... read more

The $8.78 Million Maneuver

Consider library costs at the University of Illinois College ... school's rank at risk." At New York University, Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley, for example, the law schools ... read more

UC Berkeley experiences drop in freshman, transfer applicants for 1st time in a decade

For the first time ... the UC system has seen a 3 percent decrease in applicants to the nine undergraduate campuses. UC Berkeley’s 2019 freshman applicant pool dropped by 2.5 percent to total about 87 ... read more

Campanile 100 Q & A: Lilyanne Clark, keeper of the tower

Clark: I was admitted to Berkeley as a transfer student in 1968, and I’d never been on the campus ... A major prank was in 1998 when some non-UC people in their 20s with big backpacks took a ride to ... read more

America’s Worst Community Colleges

Each maintains hundreds of its own unique policies on issues ranging from transfer requirements and prerequisites to wait lists, remediation, full-time faculty, and basic student ... Monthly’s college ... read more

GLOBAL: Some surprises in THE university rankings

The new ranking places Hong Kong as best in the world in university performance relative to gross domestic product, which tries to normalise the rankings for country size and wealth. This is the first ... read more

The 12 Top College Rivalries in the Country

Bay Area Giants: UC Berkeley vs ... welcoming all MIT students who wished to transfer to its sunny campus. Who would've thought hardworking geeks and wonks at both had such time on their hands? The ... read more

For Achievers, a New Destination

Full time: 8,651. Part time: 34,604. Transfer favorites: San Francisco State; University of California, Berkeley and Davis ... Education consistently ranks City College among the top 10 community ... read more

U of L no longer ‘mediocre’ school but lags ACC

Its rank among them has moved from ninth to a tie for fifth. Willihnganz credited better services and more support for first-year students, especially minorities, first-generation college ... passed ... read more