and 7th overall.
==== Global ====
In 2025, the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities placed Berkeley 5th in the world.
For 2025, the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked the university 12th in the world based on quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, and research performance.
The university was ranked 17th in the QS World University Rankings 2026.
In 2025, Times Higher Education ranked Berkeley 8th in the world.
For 2025–2026, U.S. News and World Report's Top Global Universities ranking placed Berkeley 6th.
In 2017, the Nature Index ranked the university the 9th largest contributor to papers published in 82 leading journals.
==== Past rankings ====
In his memoirs, Clark Kerr records Berkeley's rise in the rankings (according to the National Academies) during the 20th century. The school's first ranking in 1906 placed it among the top six schools ("Big Six") in the nation. In 1934, it ranked second, tied with Columbia and the University of Chicago, behind only …
