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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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Campus office helps new faculty adjust to life in Berkeley

Faced with continually dwindling state funding and increasing competition from private universities, Lisa Bagnatori’s job — making sure the best and brightest professors choose to make UC Berkeley their home — is not always easy. A Cal alumna, Bagnatori was hired in 2008 as the campus’s CALcierge, a position created Read More…