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US News ranks three UC Berkeley graduate programs best in the nation

UC Berkeley’s departments of history, English and sociology ranked first in the nation overall. The College of Engineering and the Haas School of Business maintained their positions, while the Boalt School of Law, pictured above, faltered in rank by two places and returned to its 2011 ranking of ninth.
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UC Berkeley’s departments of history, English and sociology ranked first in the nation overall. The College of Engineering and the Haas School of Business maintained their positions, while the Boalt School of Law, pictured above, faltered in rank by two places and returned to its 2011 ranking of ninth.

Three UC Berkeley graduate programs have been named best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2014 Graduate School Rankings released Tuesday. Read More…

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UC Berkeley engineering school appoints new dean to promote equity

UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering is striving to increase gender and ethnic diversity among its students following allegations of discrimination last semester, although efforts are progressing gradually. The college garnered much attention last October when a California Watch article pointed out instances of sexism in the campus’s male-dominated engineering student Read More…