Has Berkeley's prestige gone down?

Even in the global rankings that measure research output we are falling, and those are the rankings where we perform the best. For instance, we were ranked #5 in ARWU this year (our lowest ever). This means we lost our distinction as #1 public university in the world to Cambridge. I’m ticked…

Our trend overall for Times Higher Ed dropped from 92 to 84. ■■■.

Rankings from 2011 to 2018 is a nasty trend. 8->10->9->8->8->13->10->18

http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2017.html