According to the world's largest, invitation-only opinion survey of senior academics, UC San Diego is the #35 best university around the globe. Just out, the UK-based Times Higher Education Supplement released its World Reputation Rankings in early May. The campus's reputation climbed six spots compared to its ranking released in 2015.
“We are pleased UC San Diego’s reputation continues to grow as a world-class university that provides an outstanding education and pushes the frontiers of knowledge to improve our local and global communities,” said Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “UC San Diego’s ranking as a global leader is a reflection of our dynamic students, faculty and staff, who foster a culture of collaboration, spark discoveries and transform lives.” According to the Times Higher Education announcement, the 2016 World Reputation Rankings "employ the world’s largest invitation-only academic opinion survey to provide the definitive list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands, based on the judgment of senior, published academics––the people, the organization believes, who are best placed to know the most about excellence in universities.”
UC San Diego has dominated academic world rankings in recent months. The campus was ranked the world’s 14th best university for the third consecutive year by the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). In a separate ranking, the Center for World University Rankings put the campus at #21, and U.S. News & World Report gave UC San Diego the #19 spot in its latest global ranking of universities.
The Times Higher Education survey did not attempt to uncover the individual departments or disciplines with the best reputations. But in its latest ranking, U.S. News put computer science at UC San Diego at #11 among the best global university programs, and the last ARWU survey ranked the CSE program at #14 worldwide.
(Photo of Geisel Library by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications)
Learn more about the 2016 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings.