UCLA ranks 13 in the United States, ranking 29th in the world. These two universities are the highest ranked universities in California, and they are also the best two among the branches of the University of California.
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The University of California (UC), founded in 1868, is a public university system organized by ten university campuses in California. 195 1 year, "University of California" carried out system reform and appointed presidents to Berkeley campus and Los Angeles campus. During the period from 1958 to 1964, the branches of the University of California, which were originally under the jurisdiction of Berkeley campus, were transformed into the total campus of Berkeley campus one by one, and the University of California was transformed into a federal university with several equivalent campuses. Today's University of California has no traditional so-called "main campus".
(University of California, Berkeley)
Today, as the founding campus of the University of California, Berkeley continues to perform best in all branches. California pays attention to higher research fields, so most schools belong to research universities. In addition to the above two universities (Berkeley and Los Angeles), "University of California" also includes University of California, San Diego, University of California, Davis, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of California, Riverside, University of California, Merced and University of California, San Francisco.
In the ranking of American universities, the University of California, Berkeley is only behind Harvard, Massachusetts and Stanford. Even in the QS world university rankings, the University of California, Berkeley, followed closely by Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College. It can be said that in addition to the world's top universities in Britain and the United States, Berkeley has achieved "above 10,000 schools".
In California, it is necessary to distinguish another California university-California Institute of Technology. It is a famous private college of science and engineering, ranking eighth in the United States, and has nothing to do with all campuses in California.
(California Institute of Technology)
However, as one of the most prestigious universities of science and technology in the world, California Institute of Technology ranks first in science and engineering education, research and innovation. The school is famous for its rigorous academic courses and world-class research in physics, engineering and computer science. The students of California Institute of Technology performed well and won many awards, including the Nobel Prize and the National Science Medal. So Caltech is a very important one in the ranking of California University.