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.

All together, this adds up to a state with an abundance of high-value colleges. To generate our list of top California colleges, we looked at the top-scoring schools on both our main ranking ...

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.