Why the University of California at Berkeley ranked No. 1 in our annual America's Top Colleges list:
give extra credit to schools that educate the greatest number of students from the broadest range of backgrounds. In contrast to Cal’s 2021 graduating class of 9,000, Harvard’s numbered just 1,500. Only 12% of Harvard undergrads receive Pell Grants, which helps explain why that vaunted 384-year-old private institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a perennial No. 1 on college lists, fell to No. 7 in the Forbes ranking.
UC has been a model of public higher education for more than 150 years. At its founding in 1868, state and higher ed leaders envisioned the first University of California as an institution that could provide an accessible and practical education for a broad range of residents. California had become a state less than two decades earlier, in 1850. The flagship campus started in Oakland and in 1873, moved next door to Berkeley.
In the 1960s, UC system leaders and the State Department of Education anticipated a spike in college enrollment due to the baby boomer generation approaching college age. They developed theThe plan reaffirmed UC’s mission as the state’s primary academic research institution. UC was to select from among the top one-eighth of the state’s high school graduating classes.
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