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In May, UCLA was ranked No. 2 public in the U.S. and No. 9 overall in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings. In April, UCLA topped Forbes’ Best Value Colleges ranking. In addition, UCLA was named the No. 1 public institution in the nation in three separate assessments last fall: U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education Top Colleges rankings.

US News & World Report (Sep 2018)1. Princeton, 2 Harvard, 3T Columbia, Chicago, Yale, MIT, 7 Stanford, 8T Penn, Duke, 10T Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, 12T CalTech, Dartmouth, 14T Brown, Vanderbilt, 16T Cornell, Rice, 18 Notre Dame, 19T UCLA, Washington U (StL), 21 Emory,  22T UCB, USC, Georgetown, 25T Carnegie Mellon, Virginia, 27 Wake Forest, Michigan, Tufts, 30T NYU, UNC, UCSB, 33T UCI, Rochester, 35T Brandeis,  Georgia Tech, Florida, 38T Boston College, Wm & Mary, UCD, 41 UCSD, 42T Boston U, Case Western, 44T Northeastern, Tulane, 46T Pepperdine, Georgia, Illinois, 49T Rensselaer, Texas, Wisconsin, Villanova

international:  Shanghai world rankings 2018
UCLA has been named the No. 2 public university in the United States and the 11th best in the world — public or private — by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy in its 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities. The overall ranking is up one place from No. 12, a position UCLA has held since 2011.
The top 10 in order:   Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, MIT, 5-UC Berkeley, Princeton, Oxford, Columbia, California Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, 11- UCLA... 15-UC San Diego

Forbes top 25 US public schools
1 US Military Academy, 2 USN Academy, 3 USAF Academy, 4 Virginia, 5 Wm & Mary, 6 UCB, 7 Michigan, 8 UCLA, 9 North Carolina
10 Wisconsin, 11 Illinois, 12 Washington, 13 Florida, 14 Maryland, 15 Georgia Tech, 16 Texas, 17 Georgia, 18 USCG Academy, 19 UCSB
20 Indiana, 21 UCSD, 22 Virginia Tech, 23 Minnesota, 24 Colorado (Boulder), 25 UCD

UCLA stats
Given to us by Chancellor Block at our Dec 2013 dinner meeting (stats dated June 2013)
1.UCLA continued to be the most applied-to university in the U.S. For this fall’s incoming freshman class, we received a record 80,497 applications for approximately 5,700 spots.
2. UCLA’s graduation rates, which have long been among the best in the nation, are at historically high levels. More than 91 percent of entering freshmen are graduating from UCLA.
3. by the fall, UCLA will offer approximately 40 online undergraduate courses, enrolling up to 4,000 students. 
4. we have already received nearly $397 million in gifts and pledges this year.