Education

UC Riverside has received a record number applicants for the fall 2025 semester. The number of first-year applicants – 70,578 – was a 23.2 percent increase year-over-year, and the most ever received by the school since it opened in 1954, according to a statement on the university’s website. This increase …

Mt. San Jacinto College’s Temecula Valley Campus has been granted center status by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. That designation means $2.2 million more in funding for MSJC, which is expected to make it easier for the two-year school to provide higher education for residents of …

A group of educators and business people is working to bring a four-year university to the Temecula Valley. The Southwest Riverside County Higher Education Coalition wants to convert part of a building on Mt. San Jacinto College’s Temecula Valley campus into the only four-year college or university in the region. …

Cal State San Bernardino and UC Riverside have been ranked among the top U.S. colleges and universities by a leading Military Times magazine. The publication, which studied more than 300 institutions of higher learning, ranked Cal State State San Bernardino first in California and 12th nationally for serving veteran and military …

UC Riverside has received a $1.4 million grant from the University of California Administration that will be used to find ways to clean and reuse water for agriculture. The grant was presented recently to Professor Haizhou Liu, who teaches environmental engineering at UC Riverside, and a research team that will …

Cal State San Bernardino raised $118,000 on Giving Tuesday, topping last year’s record donations by $8,000. The donations were from more than 600 donors nationwide, and the amount raised is expected to grow as more donations are received and processed, according to a statement on the university’s website. “Giving Tuesday …