CSU Monterey Bay is the seventh-best midsize college in the West, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The ranking is a followup to the rankings issued by the newspaper in September, where CSUMB was ranked 119th nationally, among all colleges and universities. Among California public universities, CSUMB ranked No. 13 overall, and it was eighth within the CSU system.

Midsize schools are defined as those with 3,000 to 9,999 students. No. 1 on the list was Stanford University. CSUMB was flanked by Pepperdine University (No. 6) and University of the Pacific (No. 8).