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STOCKTON, Calif. — For Stanislaus State Master of Social Work student and Stockton native Delilah Rice, pursuing a career in social work means serving the same community that shaped her.  

When Michelle Barajas-Perez came to Stanislaus State as an undergraduate student in 2018, she dreamed of earning her criminal justice degree and becoming a detective. While she remains fascinated with criminal justice, it was her curiosity in international studies that led her down a far different career path. 

Stanislaus State has been recognized in the 2026 Best Online Programs rankings released Tuesday, Jan. 27, by U.S. News & World Report.

The University’s online Master of Business Administration (MBA) program was ranked No. 136 nationally among more than 300 programs evaluated in the Best Online MBA Programs, earning an overall score of 72.

A group of Stanislaus State faculty members are helping lay the foundation for a regional pathway that will advance the circular bioeconomy in the Central Valley, and the recent awarding of a $400,000 grant has increased their momentum. 

Maximo Madrigal never considered Study Abroad until a member of his School of Nursing cohort, Charlene Evangelista, implored her classmates to join her on lecturer Esther Harris’s annual trip to Ecuador to satisfy the program’s transcultural class. He decided to join her.

Sitting with a group of fellow nursing students, Stanislaus State’s Ted Elijah shared a story about an encounter he had with a fellow Warrior at a local hospital.

She was an OB patient on the floor he was assigned to work that day, recalled Elijah, a student in the University’s Accelerated Second Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ASBSN) program. He could tell that she was really scared.

When he returned to his native country, Nigeria, for seven months as a Fulbright Scholar, Stanislaus State’s Roland Starn Endowed Chair and Director of Agriculture Oluwarotimi Odeh found the homecoming quite revealing and fulfilling. 

Not only were the students in his entrepreneurship class at his alma mater, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) in Ondo State, amazed to hear what the United States was actually like, but his former professors, many now retired, treated him with an embarrassing level of deference. 

For the 19th consecutive year, Stanislaus State has been included in The Princeton Review’s “Best 390 Colleges for 2025” college guide. This prestigious list doesn’t rank institutions, but instead highlights the nation’s top 390 schools for undergraduates. The University also is featured on the publication’s “Best West” regional list for schools it considers “academically outstanding.” 

For the second consecutive year, The Princeton Review has recognized Stanislaus State’s Online Master of Business Administration (OMBA) as one of the top 163 online MBA programs in the nation for 2024. The University is one of eight California OMBA programs to earn a spot on the prestigious list.