\n By Richard Chang
\n Celebrated Reputation\n <\/p>\n
Cal State Long Beach has ranked No. 8 among national universities for \u201cTop Performers on Social Mobility,\u201d according to U.S. News & World Report\u2019s 2027 Best Colleges rankings, released today.<\/p>\n
The social mobility rankings<\/a>, which are part of U.S. News\u2019 varied outcome measures, assess graduation rates and the performance of Pell Grant-awarded students. The publication examined graduation rates of Pell Grant students over a four-year moving average \u2014 from the entering classes of fall 2016 through fall 2019. The higher a university\u2019s Pell graduation rate relative to its non-Pell graduation rate, the better the social mobility scores.<\/p>\n Of the more than 36,700 enrolled undergraduate Beach students in fall 2025, 59% were Pell eligible and about 50% received Pell Grants, according to campus data and the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n In other rankings published today by U.S. News, Cal State Long Beach ranked highly in several non-doctorate engineering programs<\/a>, including No. 5 in aerospace aeronautical and astronautical engineering, No. 9 in computer engineering and No. 10 in electrical and electronic engineering.<\/p>\n The rankings continue to underscore CSULB\u2019s stature as a top educational institution that promotes social mobility and academic achievement.<\/p>\n Last month, Cal State Long Beach ranked No. 10 in Washington Monthly\u2019s \u201cBest Colleges for Your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars\u201d<\/a> list. The Beach also ranked No. 4 in Washington Monthly\u2019s \u201cBest Bang for the Buck: West\u201d<\/a> list for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal and College Pulse have ranked CSULB in the top 50 in their annual \u201cBest Colleges in America\u201d<\/a> list, and Money has also recognized Cal State Long Beach as one of the \u201cBest Colleges in America,\u201d<\/a> giving The Beach 5 out of 5 stars for three years in a row, including this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Chang Celebrated Reputation Cal State Long Beach has ranked No. 8 among national universities for \u201cTop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1818,1820,7,1815,1821,1822,1819,131,133,132,1817,1816],"class_list":["post-472317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-49ers","tag-cal-state","tag-california","tag-college","tag-csu","tag-csulb","tag-dirtbags","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472317","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=472317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}