May 4, 1998

UCSC appears on America's 'most-wired' list

By Jim Burns

UC Santa Cruz is ranked 24th in the country in an Internet magazine's survey assessing the computer environment of American colleges and universities. The results of Yahoo! Internet Life's second annual national survey appear in the magazine's May issue.

Among UC campuses which were ranked in the "America's 100 Most Wired Colleges" survey, only UCLA--at No. 23--finished ahead of UCSC. UC Berkeley was ranked 42nd in the county. Dartmouth College occupied the survey's top spot.

"In rating this year's schools, we took all aspects of the wired campus into account--infrastructure, social life--but we focused primarily on the academic benefits of using the Net," survey analysts reported.

In an article appearing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the survey's Robert Bernstein said this year's rankings paid particular attention to technologies campuses employed that made a difference in the quality of student life. Colleges and universities with well-developed online admissions and registration systems, for example, scored high, as did those that made extensive use of the Internet in research and instruction, he said.

This year's survey put less emphasis on details of each campus's technology infrastructure, Bernstein said.

UCSC also made the "America's 100 Most Wired Colleges" list in the survey's inaugural year, finishing 56th in 1997.

Yahoo! Internet Life is published monthly in a traditional paper format and as an online publication (www.zdnet.com/yil/).

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