I've been digesting this a bit lately. It's the most recent report and uses 2018 data. It's a good, rough snapshot of how AAU ready a university is.
A couple of things to point out.
First, UC's place in the listing of public only universities is misleading and not a strict "ranking." They compile it based on 9 metrics and where you fall in them against all research universities or against public only universities. We fall 26-50 in the public only category in 5 of the 9, but we don't make top 25 in any. The way they list the universities means that anyone who makes top 25 in just one metric and doesn't make top 50 in anything else is listed above us. That doesn't make any sense, but the data is valuable.
What's great is not only the metrics that we're top 50 in (total research, federal research, endowment, annual giving and post-docs) but that we are just outside the top 50 in the other 4 (National Academy members, faculty awards, total doctorates awarded and median SAT score). We're not terrible in any facet--not even median SAT score despite still being open admission not too long ago.
The public only list starts on page 27. Further down, there are multi year compilations for all schools, which show a strong, steady improvement across the board for UC. The down note is that just like it was an accurate predictor of Utah as next in, it's looking like NC State is now in that position.
https://mup.umass.edu/sites/default/file...report.pdf