UCLA was rated 10th out of 284 national universities ranked for their humanitarian efforts in Washington Monthly magazine’s annual rankings.
The magazine bases its rankings on the social mobility each university offers, the service its students perform and the research accomplishments of its staff, according to Washington Monthly’s website.
The ratings take into account the number of low-income students that enroll and graduate, students who participate in community service after graduating and teachers who receive awards for research at each university.
The magazine reported that 32 percent of UCLA students receive Pell grants, which are need-based grants for low-income undergraduate students, and that the university awarded 509 science and engineering doctorates this past year.
The magazine also considers how many students join the Peace Corps or ROTC after they graduate and how much money a school spends on research. UCLA spent $982 million on research last year, according to Washington Monthly.
Schools in the University of California system fared well overall in the rankings, with four UC schools – UC San Diego, UC Riverside, UC Berkeley and UCLA – placing in the top 10. UCLA dropped four places this year, after it fell behind UC Riverside, University of Texas at El Paso, Case Western Reserve University and Georgia Institute of Technology.
This year is the fourth consecutive year UC San Diego has taken first place in the rankings and UCLA has made the top 10 on the list multiple years.