UCSB Ranked No. 7 in Leiden Ranking of World’s Top 500 Universities

The Leiden Ranking is based on publications in Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science database from 2005-2009.

Only six universities ranked higher than UCSB, including M.I.T, Princeton, Harvard, Rice, Stanford, and Caltech. UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco were ranked 8 and 10, respectively. Other UC campuses in the top 40 were UC San Diego at number 19, UCLA at number 20, UC Santa Cruz at number 21, UC Riverside at number 29, and UC Irvine at number 37.

“UC Santa Barbara’s faculty and researchers are advancing the frontiers of knowledge, and we are very proud that these contributions have been recognized with the number 7 ranking among the top 500 world universities in the four-year study by Leiden University in the Netherlands,” said Chancellor Henry T. Yang. “The high citation rate of our faculty’s publications in prestigious journals is a testament to the far-reaching impact of the work taking place on our campus.”