Inland Empire Colleges Rank High in New Report

The University of Redlands ranked 12th among regional universities in the West and two of the Claremont Colleges ranked in the top 10 among national liberal arts colleges in a new survey by U.S. News & World Report.

In its Best Colleges 2014 report, released Tuesday, the magazine ranked Pomona College 4th and Claremont-McKenna College 9th. Other Claremont colleges were in the top 50, including Harvey Mudd at 16th, Scripps at 25th and Pitzer at 35th.

The University of California, Riverside, ranked 112th and the University of La Verne 161st among national universities. 

In the same category of regional universities as Redlands, California Baptist University came in at 42nd, California State University, San Bernardino, at 57th, and La Sierra University at 88th.

The annual report provides students with rankings of colleges and universities that award bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. The rankings are available to the public online and the print edition will hit newsstands on Sept. 24. 

Ivy League universities Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia took the top four positions in the national universities ranking.

Williams and Amherst colleges in Massachusetts, and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, led the list of national liberal arts colleges.

In Los Angeles, a crosstown rivalry was highlighted when both UCLA and USC were tied at 23rd among national universities.