University of California-Irvine is in the top tier of public universities in the U.S., according to a ranking scheduled to be released next week.
UCI is one of five institutions in California—UC system schools in Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara are the others—to crack the top-10 threshold of the public universities category in the annual “Best Colleges” ranking of U.S. News & World Report, the magazine said in a “preview” note today.
UCI was tied for 11th in the public university category last year, a university spokesperson said.
Rounding out the top 10 are five schools in four states: Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Michigan.
The full report with rankings will be released Wednesday, Sept. 9.
