Education

UC Riverside has admitted a record number of freshmen for its fall 2021 semester. 34,671 freshmen are scheduled to attend classes, a year-over-year increase of nearly 2,000, when the fall semester begins Sept. 23, according to a statement on the university’s website. UC Riverside will also welcome the most California …

Mt. San Jacinto College has started four career education programs intended to prepare students for in-demand jobs in the Inland Empire. Courses in aviation science, culinary arts, engineering, and geographic information science will all be available during the upcoming fall semester, which is scheduled to start Aug. 16, according to …

UC Riverside has received a $500,000 grant from the Southern California Energy Innovation Network. The university’s Office of Technology Partnerships also announced it has added five years to its two-year commitment to lead that program in the Inland Empire, according to a statement on the university’s website. “Clean energy research …

The online master of business administration program at Cal State San Bernardino has been named one of the best programs of its kind in the United States by an online publication. The program, run out of the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration, was ranked 49th among …

Chaffey College has received $25 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. “Higher education is a proven pathway to opportunity, so we looked for two and four-year institutions [that are] successfully educating students who come from communities that have been chronically underserved,” Scott wrote on her website Tuesday. The community college in …

Cal State San Bernardino has been ranked among the top online-friendly universities for military personnel. The website www.intelligent.com studied 224 schools and ranked each on a scale of 0 to 100, with 63 making the list of Online Military Friendly Colleges, according to a statement on the university’s website. Cal …