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<p>UC Berkeley is very highly regarded in surveys of University quality other than USNWR. Here are three (all rankings are pretty much nonsense, however):</p>

<p>LEITER (Univ. of Texas) RANKING OF U.S. UNIVERSITIES BY UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATIONAL QUALITY
<a href=“http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/bleiter/Undergra2001.html[/url]”>http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/bleiter/Undergra2001.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>TOP 20 UNIVERSITIES NOT PRIMARILY SCIENCE/ENGINEERING</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard University </li>
<li>Princeton University </li>
<li>Stanford University </li>
<li>University of Chicago </li>
<li>Yale University </li>
<li>Columbia University </li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania </li>
<li>Brown University </li>
<li>Cornell University </li>
<li>Duke University </li>
<li>Emory University </li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University </li>
<li>Northwestern University </li>
<li>Rice University </li>
<li>University of California, Berkeley </li>
<li>Washington University, St. Louis </li>
<li>Brandeis University </li>
<li>Dartmouth College </li>
<li>University of California, Los Angeles </li>
<li>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin, Madison</li>
</ol>

<p>World University Rankings
<a href=“http://www.epfl.ch/soc/etudes/pdf/world-rankingsUnis.pdf[/url]”>http://www.epfl.ch/soc/etudes/pdf/world-rankingsUnis.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>1 Harvard University US
2 University of California, Berkeley
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
4 California Institute of Technology<br>
5 Oxford University UK
6 Cambridge University UK
7 Stanford University US
8 Yale University US
9 Princeton University US
10 ETH Zurich Switzerland
11 London School of Economics UK
12 Tokyo University Japan
13 University of Chicago US</p>

<p>Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Rankings of the world’s top 500 Universities <a href=“http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm[/url]”>http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>1 Harvard University
2 University of Cambridge
3 Stanford University
4 University of California, Berkeley
5 MIT
6 California IT
7 Columbia University
8 Princeton University
9 University of Chicago
10 University of Oxford</p>