The numbers point to what seems at first glance a troubling trend for the University of California at Riverside. In 2010, it was comfortably in the top 100 on the U.S. News and World Report list of the nation’s universities, ranking 94th. In 2011, it was 97th. In 2012, it lost a few bragging rights, sliding to 101st. Then 112th … and then 113th. Now, it stands at 121st. That is from the latest list, published Wednesday, a drop of 27 places over five years on the most prominent index in higher education.

September 9, 2015 ・ From The Washington Post