Stanford and UC Berkeley get a lot of attention, but one of the Bay Area’s top college has largely flown under the radar until this year.
The Wall Street Journal recently ranked San Jose State University fourth on its list of top public universities in the country and 16th overall. The university ranked much lower on last year’s list at 173.
It takes more than top-notch academics for a school to get a high ranking from the Wall Street Journal’s top 500 colleges and universities list. Affordability and employability count a lot. Those factors boosted San Jose State to take 16th place on this year’s list, behind Stanford in third and UC Berkeley at eighth. While Santa Clara University scored 38th on the list…