UC Riverside ranked in the top 1.3% of universities worldwide in the 2026 Center for World University Rankings, released Monday, June 1.
The campus ranked No. 274 out of 21,291. Nationally, UCR landed at No. 83 while for the U.S. and Canada it was No. 93.
The rankings are published by the Center for World University Rankings, a consultancy based in the United Arab Emirates. Institutions are evaluated on four key factors: education or academic success of their alumni; employability or professional success of alumni; faculty with top academic distinctions; and research output and influence.
Universities and colleges are assigned scores based on that methodology with 100 being the highest. UCR earned a score of 77.4.
This is the eighth consecutive year in which UCR has ranked in the top 1.3% or better in the Center for World University Rankings.
