Education

UC Riverside has been ranked among the top universities in the world by the Center for World University Rankings, a consultancy in the United Arab Emirates. Released Monday, the rankings placed UC Riverside 252 out of 20,531 universities, putting it in the top 1.3 percent of institutions of higher learning, …

The School of Entrepreneurship at Cal State San Bernardino will host a three-day event next month that will show high school students what it’s like to operate a business. The UpStarters Discovery Camp is scheduled to be held June 20-22 on the Cal State San Bernardino campus, according to a …

UC Riverside’s School of Medicine has been ranked fifth in ethnic diversity among all U.S. graduate schools by U.S. News & World Report. The medical school tied for fifth with the Tyson School of Medicine at Kaiser Permanente in Pasadena for the most ethnically diverse student body, according to the magazine’s …

Mt. San Jacinto College has been named the Large Business of the Year for 2023 by the Menifee Chamber of Commerce. Roger Schultz,  president and superintendent of the community college, and Vicki Carpenter, who represents Menifee on the school’s board of trustees, accepted the award at the college’s April 29 …

UC Riverside closed its economic research center, several weeks after questions were raised regarding the school’s relationship with the private consulting firm that ran that operation. Beacon Economics in Los Angeles will no longer run the Center for Economic Forecasting Development, which Beacon has run since the company was founded …

More than 1,200 Inland Empire high school students are expected to participate March 10 in the Virtual Enterprises’ Inland Empire Regional Conference and Exhibition at Cal State San Bernardino. The event, sponsored by the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship, will feature students who run virtual businesses from their classroom, according …