Education

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 …

UC Riverside’s School of Medicine has received a $450,000 grant it will use to increase ethnic diversity among its student body. The donation, from the California Wellness Foundation, will be spread over four years “to help underrepresented minority students pursue careers in health professions,” according to a statement on the …

Starting this fall, UC Riverside will become the first University of California institution to offer a master’s degree in robotics. The program will teach the design, construction, and deployment of robots and autonomous systems, disciplines that can be applied to manufacturing, logistics, health care, public safety, and the military, according …

Mt. San Jacinto College will hold a drive-through graduation celebration and virtual graduation ceremony Thursday. The school is scheduled to hand out 3,730 degrees and certificates to 2,091 graduates, 133 more graduates than last year, and most of its 59-year history, according to a statement on the school’s website. The …