Education

UC Riverside is the top university in the United States for social mobility, according to the 2020 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. The magazine’s social mobility ranking measures the number of students receiving Pell Grants and how many of those people graduated, the magazine stated. Pell Grants …

Washington Monthly has ranked Cal State San Bernardino in the top 10 for the categories “Best Bang for the Buck” in the western United States and for national universities with master’s programs. The university ranked eighth among Western colleges and universities that help non-wealthy students obtain affordable degrees that help …

Riverside City College has received a $306,000 grant that it will use to help prevent suicides. The three-year grant from the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, one of four handed out recently, will go to RCC’s health and psychological services department, according to a statement.  Nineteen other schools received similar …

Cal State San Bernardino has been ranked one of the best colleges in the western United States by The Princeton Review. This is the 16th year that Cal State San Bernardino has been named among the top colleges in the west by The Princeton Review, a tutoring, test prep, and …

Vocademy, a Riverside County school that teaches advanced manufacturing skills, has received a $100,000 prize from the U.S. Small Business Administration. The grant was part of $1 million the administration gave out recently to its Makerspace Training, Collaboration and Hiring (MaTCH) Pilot Competition, according to a statement. “Our goal at …

Mt. San Jacinto College has received state funding that will pay for two STEM buildings, one on each of the college’s two campuses. On the San Jacinto Campus, a 37,000-square-foot science, technology, engineering and math building will include science labs, lecture halls, general classrooms, math and general studies labs and …