On October 26, U.S. News & World Report officially released its latest 2022 Best Global University Rankings. The first three are Harvard, MIT, and Stanford University, all of which are well-known private research universities in the United States.
The University of California, Berkeley, still directly surpassed Oxford University and Cambridge University to rank fourth, making many students full of curiosity about this school.
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is located near Silicon Valley, and UC Berkeley, like nine siblings in the UC system, bears the title "UCW," but each is an independent university. The University of California does not have a so-called "main campus", "branch school" is just a historical misunderstanding of Chinese translation.
In this year's Forbes America's Top Colleges 2021 Ranking of the Best Universities in the United States, the University of California, Berkeley took the top spot, leaving Harvard, Princeton and MIT behind the previous top of the list.
As for the reasons why each list ranks differently, forbes' list evaluation benchmark is not only academic performance, subject ranking and admission rate, but also focuses on the return on investment.
Why can UC Berkeley crush The Ivy League schools such as Harvard yale in the first place? Forbes specifically explained this.
They believe that UC Berkeley has all the qualities that have become the top 1 on this list: top-notch academics, great sports, a fascinating Bay Area environment, a reasonable cost, and a storied history.
Berkeley
It is one of the world's top public research universities
Known as public ivy
Ranked #4 in the World's Best Universities 2022
QS World University Rankings 2022 - 32nd place
8th times higher education in 2022
Ranked #1 on the 2021 Nation's Best Colleges rankings
4th in the U.S. News World University Rankings 2021
Ranked 5th in the Academic Rankings of World Universities in Soft Sciences 2021
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > first-rate scholars</h1>
As of October 2020, Berkeley alumni, professors and researchers have produced 110 Nobel Prize, 14 Fields Medal and 25 Turing Award winners, ranking third among the most Nobel laureate universities in the world and one of the most important research and teaching centers in the world.
Physics, chemistry, computer science, engineering, economics, law and many other fields are ranked in the top ten in the world in many world university rankings, and their reputation is comparable to Stanford.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="90" > charming harbor</h1>
The University of California, Berkeley, is located in the northeast of the San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by mountains and seas, with warm winters and cool summers, and a pleasant climate. And across the bay from San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, and close to Silicon Valley, it provides a lot of opportunities for future internships and employment for international students.
Like Intel founder Gordon Moore, Apple founder Steve Wozniak, Tesla founder Mark Tapening and so on. The well-known Chinese writer Zhang Ailing, the traditional Chinese scholar Zhao Yuanren, and the politician Sun Ke all studied or worked here.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="91" > great sport</h1>
In addition, Berkeley's athletic prowess should not be underestimated. Since its establishment, the school has won 223 Olympic medals. (121 Olympic gold medals, 56 silver medals, 46 bronze medals). Olympic champion, Champions League champion and two-time World Cup champion Alex Morgan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. This year, Alex Morgan once again played for the United States at the Tokyo Olympics.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="92" > reasonable cost</h1>
Forbes once mentioned in an article that Berkeley undergraduates pay about $14,000 a year ($29,000 out of state), which is much cheaper than their main competitor, Stanford University.
About 21 percent of new students and 43 percent of California transfer students receive pell grants, which are federally funded to help low- and middle-income families afford college. UC graduates earn enough to pay off college tuition within an average of 1.45 years. Graduates from low-income families did better, paying off college tuition in just 0.7 years.
So, such a school with first-class scholars, great sports, a charming Bay Area environment, reasonable cost and legendary history, is it difficult for him to offer?