{"id":154100,"date":"2026-01-29T00:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/154100\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:12:07","slug":"uc-berkeley-climbs-to-no-5-globally-in-2026-the-business-economics-ranking-haas-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/154100\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Berkeley climbs to No. 5 globally in 2026 THE Business &#038; Economics Ranking &#8211; Haas News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bcr_0035a-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40737\"  \/>Photo: Noah Berger<\/p>\n<p>UC Berkeley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/world-university-rankings\/2026\/subject-ranking\/business-and-economics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">placed No. 5<\/a> globally in the Times Higher Education\u2019s (THE) 2026 Business and Economics Ranking. <\/p>\n<p>With the new ranking, UC Berkeley joins the top five-ranked universities: MIT (No. 1), Stanford University (No. 2), Tsinghua University (No. 3), and the University of Oxford (No. 4). <\/p>\n<p>THE, the parent company of <a href=\"https:\/\/poetsandquants.com\/2026\/01\/21\/mit-tops-world-university-rankings-for-business-economics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Poets&amp;Quants,<\/a> weighs metrics related to teaching, research, industry partnerships, and international presence in this ranking of the world\u2019s top universities for business and economics. <\/p>\n<p>The ranking considers performance across three core disciplines: business and management, accounting and finance, and economics and econometrics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UC Berkeley\u2019s ranking rose in 2026 due to a 7.5-point jump in research quality; the university topped all top 50 schools with a research quality score of 91.5.<\/p>\n<p>This year, THE evaluated 1,067 schools across 91 countries and territories, measuring five core evaluation areas, including:<\/p>\n<p>Teaching, including teaching reputation, student-to-staff ratio, doctorate-to-bachelor\u2019s ratio, doctorate-to-staff ratio, and institutional income.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Research Environment, including research reputation, income, and productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Research Quality, including citation impact, research strength, research excellence, and influence. (Universities must produce at least 200 published research papers to be considered for the ranking.)<\/p>\n<p>Industry, including income from industry partnerships and patents.<\/p>\n<p>International Outlook, including international students, staff, and co-authorship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/world-university-rankings\/world-university-rankings-subject-2026-methodology\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a> about the THE methodology here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Noah Berger UC Berkeley placed No. 5 globally in the Times Higher Education\u2019s (THE) 2026 Business and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1979,75774,143,145,144,75775,75776],"class_list":{"0":"post-154100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-latest-news","9":"tag-mba-program","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-headlines","12":"tag-oakland-news","13":"tag-phd-program","14":"tag-undergraduate-program"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}