UC Riverside has been ranked one of the top two universities in the United States for social mobility by a major publication.
The Inland Empire’s largest institution of higher learning, and Florida International University, shared the number-one ranking on U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 list of colleges and universities that do the best job educating underprivileged students.
The list was published Sept. 23. UC Riverside has been ranked first on that list five of the seven years it has been published, and was second the other two years, according to a statement on UC Riverside’s statement…