UC Berkeley is the No. 1 public school in the country

UC Berkeley is the No. 1 public school in the country — tied with UCLA, according to the newest American college rankings by U.S. News and World Report.

The celebratory news comes after a remarkable few years at Berkeley, including two Nobel Prize(link is external) wins(link is external) for sitting faculty and a record-breaking fundraising campaign(link is external) that is well on the way to raising $6 billion for the public campus.