The University of California, Los Angeles is one of six schools in the University of California system among the top 10 public schools in the West, according to the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings.

UCLA, the highest-ranked public school in the country at No. 25 among all colleges, is followed on the list of leading public colleges in the West by the University of California schools in Berkeley, Davis and San Diego. All three of those schools are also among the top 10 public schools nationwide, as...