Article comparing UCs to other state schools

[ucbalumnus]

The page linked in the first post has this:

@Emma Whiteford in forbes.com

California can thank both history and Forbes’ methodology for its success. Our ranking approach, which we significantly revamped three years ago, is designed to identify schools that enroll students from across the socioeconomic spectrum who then go on to graduate, earn high salaries and become leaders in their fields, without spending their young adult years drowning in student debt.

Given California’s public college and university policies for the last several decades which are intended to increase access to those from low income families (both in terms of attendance and in-state financial aid), the above is not surprising.