Take a look at Money’s latest Best Colleges list, and you’ll notice a recurring name at the very top: California State University. Fifteen of the system’s 23 campuses score in the top 10% of our ...

Fresno State - Credit: Fresno State July 6, 2025 - Fresno State, for the third consecutive year, received a 4.5-star rating ...

In Forbes’ 2024-25 America’s Top Colleges list, which was released earlier this month, the two Bay Area colleges ranked in the top five. Stanford was ranked second overall, and UC Berkeley ...

You can view Forbes’ full best colleges list HERE. More on Forbes’ methodology can be viewed here . KRON4 reached out to both Stanford for comment on the Top 5 ranking by Forbes.

Several Bay Area colleges and universities, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, Santa Clara University and Cal State East Bay, made it onto U.S. News' "2025 Best Colleges in California" list.

It’s not uncommon for public colleges to score well on Money’s value-focused analysis. In 2018, the University of California, Irvine nabbed the No. 1 overall spot, and in 2022, the University of ...