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Keegan Houser\/UC Berkeley<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t June 15, 2026\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
U.S. News & World Report has ranked UC Berkeley No. 7 in its 2026 list of the best global universities<\/a>, which assesses more than 2,250 research institutions worldwide. Berkeley also claimed the honor of top public university in the U.S.<\/p>\n The just-released list evaluates universities from more than 100 countries on 13 metrics<\/a> such as global and research reputation (as reported by academics and peers) and number of highly cited scholarly papers.\u00a0<\/p>\n Berkeley has been consistently awarded the distinction of the U.S.\u2019s top public university since the Best Global Universities list was first published in 2014.<\/p>\n \u201cA strong position in the Best Global Universities rankings recognizes a school\u2019s profound commitment to world-class research and cross-border academic excellence,\u201d said LaMont Jones, managing editor for education at U.S. News.<\/p>\n The rankings also assess a university\u2019s strength in various subject areas; these assessments are separate from U.S. News\u2019 2026 Best Graduate Programs rankings<\/a> released in April. This year, Berkeley was named in the top three nationally in seven subject areas \u2014 environment\/ecology, ecology, water resources, physics, computer science, chemistry, and engineering \u2014 and in the top five for a total of 17 subjects. Subject rankings are based<\/a> heavily on scholarly publications and citations as well as reputation.\u00a0<\/p>\n In September, U.S. News also released its 2026 Best Colleges list<\/a>, in which Berkeley was also named the No. 1 public institution among American universities. That honor joins other accolades judging campus to be the best public university in the country, such as those from Forbes<\/a>, The Wall Street Journal<\/a> and Times Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Best Global Universities rankings evaluated 2,250 research institutions from more than 100 countries. By Lila Thulin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[107233,143,145,144,115495,6080,113314],"class_list":["post-362475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-honors-and-awards","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-rankings","tag-research","tag-us-news-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362475","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=362475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}