University of California, San Diego - Rankings

Rankings

UCSD is considered to be a Public Ivy. In addition, the University of California, San Diego is currently ranked 14th in the world and 12th nationally by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.The 2013 edition of U.S. News & World Report ranked UC San Diego as the 38th best university in the nation, tied for 3rd best of the UC schools and the 8th best public university in the United States. UCSD is consistently ranked high in other college and university rankings. In 2010 and 2011, the university ranked 1st nationally in The Washington Monthly.

For three years in a row, the Washington Monthly has ranked UC San Diego 1st best overall in the nation when incorporating additional societal benefits other than just research impact as a metric, and 8th in the U.S. in terms of research alone. The Graham-Diamond report ranked UCSD 8th overall in the country. UCSD was selected as the "Hottest" science school by Newsweek in 2006. Human Resources & Labor Review ranked the university 16th worldwide in 2010. In its 2008 report on best values in public colleges, Kiplinger ranked UCSD 11th in the nation for in-state value and 17th in the nation for out-of-state value. In 2011, QS World University Rankings ranked UCSD 77th overall in the world, coming 14th in Life Sciences and Biomedicine. Thomson Reuters Science Watch ranks UCSD 7th of federally funded U.S. universities, based on the citation impact of their published research in major fields of science and the social sciences and 12th globally by volume of citations.