<p>I realize I will get responses like "Well, top universities don't need a list" or "There's so much about X, that they could never make a list!" </p>
<p>But I think this is an interesting read, nonetheless. Kinda wish my university had one, just for kicks.</p>
<p>UCR is leaps and bounds above Merced at the moment. It's incredibly insulting to say otherwise, that a school in its second year with much more limited resources has reached the level of UCR which has been around for a very long time, developing itself along the way. It's basically unfair to Merced to rank it given that it's so new, but if you must, saying it's at UCR's level is ridiculous.</p>