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Rankings roundup
Soc sci grad programs earn top 25 rankings among public universities, top 50 rankings overall
A quick look at UCI's recent rankings on a
number of scales provides evidence of what many of us already knew: UCI
is an up-and-coming place to be. A snapshot:
- #1 university that does most for low-income students in terms of access, affordability and student success, The New York Times College Access Index
- #1 university for beach lovers, Money magazine
- #7 best public university, Money magazine
- #7 in the nation for awarding bachelor's degrees to minority students, Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- #9 best public university in the U.S., U.S. News & World Report
- Top 10 "Cool School" for sustainability, Sierra magazine
- Top 10 best value college in terms of tuition, quality and graduation success rates and post-grad earnings, Forbes
- #16 among U.S. four year universities delivering the most value, Money magazine
Within the School of Social Sciences, graduate programs are all highly ranked. The most recent programs to be evaluated (not all program rankings are done each year) are sociology, psychology, political science and economics by U.S. News & World Report. All four earned top 25 rankings among public U.S. universities and top 50 rankings overall:
- Sociology, 12th among public universities, 23rd overall
- Psychology, 19th among public universities, 36th overall (administered by both the Department of Cognitive Sciences in Social Sciences and the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior in Social Ecology)
- Political science, 24th among public universities, 45th overall
- Economics, 24th among public universities, 47th overall
Read on...
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Better together
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Presidential sidekick
UCI alumna recounts her time as Obama's personal assistant |
Cross-continental
Economics alumna and Lauds and Laurels winner recruits fresh faces to expand UCI's growing international community |
Women's History Month: Vicki Ruiz
UCI's first National Medal of Humanities recipient |
Five facts about U.S. immigration you may not know Courtesy of UCI Chicano/Latino studies, political science and sociology professors |
Women's History Month: Anita Casavantes Bradford
First gen champion and scholar |
Awesome Anteater Alumna and former UCI lecturer Lina Kreidie chosen as Fulbright Scholar |
Price tag of homelessness in Orange County is nearly $300 million, UCI study finds UCI sociologists Goldberg and Snow find that a "housing first" approach to homelessness would save OC millions of dollars a year |
Divine interventions? Poli sci Ph.D. alumna earns U.S. Institute of Peace award for dissertation on peacebuilding in faith-based organizations |
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The Rule of Law in China
Apr 6
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Environment, Health and Fengshui
Apr 20
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Economic Interdependence and War Workshop
Apr 21-22
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Neumark, NPR
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Treas, The Guardian
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Reality: The ultimate mind game
Hoffman, CNN
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Neumark, Forbes
Reality: The ultimate mind game
Hoffman, CNN
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Wang Feng, Bloomberg
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Tesler, The Washington Post
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Brueckner, Christian Science Monitor
Too much experience to be hired? Some older Americans face age bias
Neumark, NPR
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Boushey, Orange County Register
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Ruiz, OC Weekly
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DeSipio, Univision
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Neumark, Yahoo! Finance
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Meyer, ABC Washington
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Brueckner, The Sacramento Bee
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Neumark, CBS News
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Maurer, WalletHub
Why older women may have a hard time getting hired
Neumark, The Wall Street Journal
Same topic, different tongue: the American Academy of Arts and Sciences report on language learning
Rumbaut, New America
Will China fill the rights vacuum left by the United States?
Solinger, Pacific Standard
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