<p>Im from the midwest michigan area… and i dont really know much about cali… but i was wondering about the specialities of the different ucs, superficial ranking of them, like berkely #1, ucla following etc… and such</p>
<p>specialties eh?</p>
<p>how about.......take all the specialties of all the other UCs, and then make them the standard for berkeley..........which makes berkeley's specialties (engineering, etc) superb =P</p>
<p>what's your major?</p>
<p>Each UC has its own strength both undergraduate and graduate.</p>
<p>UCLA has its talents in its medical program; UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and UC Davis also have decent medical programs.</p>
<p>In particular, UC San Diego has strengths (besides being blessed with great weather) in that Pfizer is right next door and research is number one for publics (in terms of receiving money).</p>
<p>The upper tier UCs can be generally regarded as:</p>
<p>UC Berkeley
UCLA
UC San Diego</p>
<p>The middle tier:
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Santa Barbara</p>
<p>The last tier:
UC Santa Cruz
UC Riverside
UC Merced</p>
<p>Of course, this can be played with and shifted around. All in all, the University of California as a whole is arguably one of the best post-secondary public education systems in the world (such a grand claim, I know).</p>
<p>santa barbra is middle tier??</p>
<p>And there is UCSF for graduate medical.</p>
<p>Add College of Hastings which is the law school (since we're adding graduate programs).</p>
<p>And as I said, those rankings can be played around with so don't take offense if a school is ranked too high or too low.</p>
<p>UCSB is usually not considered to be at the same level as Davis and Irvine.</p>
<p>UCSB is getting a lot better. it's won like five nobel prizes in the last five years or something like that and is, in fact, harder to get into than uc davis now (i know around 20 people who got into davis but not into ucsb)</p>
<p>Academic admission statistics for Merced was actually lower than UCR. I wonder if this will change anytime soon.</p>
<p>But reputation-wise, SB is still considered a party school, whereas Davis and Irvine are somewhat more respected. We're talking superficial ranking here.</p>
<p>fwiw, Berkeley's top Dept rankings:</p>
<p>Engineering #1
Chem #1
Physics #3 tied
Astromony #3
Comp Sci #3
Math #1
Eng #1 (been tied with Yale forever)
Art History #3 (where is Williams, Mass?)
Music #3
Antro #3
History #2 (some school in Cambridge)
Poli Sci #2
Soc #3 (that other UofC!)
German #1</p>
<p>Bio Sci departments are relative slackers, most ranked between 4-10.</p>
<p>Bluebayou: where you did you get those rankings? I'm always trying to find rankings for poli sci, but only find them on US News (which gave CAL the #5 for poli sci in general).</p>
<p>I don't what other people have heard, but most people would consider UCSB to be on par with Davis and Irvine (and some would argue that it's social life would be the tie breaker to put it above those two schools). Admissions wise, it accepts slightly less people than Davis and Irvine. GPA/SAT wise, it's virtually equal:</p>
<p>The "party reputation" of the school has been declining for a while now too.</p>
<p>uc riverside must be throwing a party this morning after the article on uc merced in the los angeles times. according to the reporter 6,000 ppl applied and only 500 have accepted with today as the final deadline. they are expecting about 800-900 to finally say yes with up to another 100 coming in as CC transfers.</p>
<p>but it gets worse from there. the article also says the sole classroom building may not be done in time so in that case the few classes scheduled will be in the library. it further says that most students used merced as their safety just in case the schools they really wanted did not say yes.</p>
<p>the grand plan is that merced will have 35,000 students by 2035 but this report suggests that the location, next to a field of cows grazing, is hardly enticing compared to places like san diego and santa cruz.</p>
<p>looks like riverside will finally have a campus to look down on at least for the next few years until merced really gets up and running.</p>
<p>with the housing market pushing people closer to grazing territory, it won't be long until Merced begin to turn students away.</p>
<p>Ok, if you look at GENERAL RANKINGS, it's this.</p>
<p>Berkeley
LA
SD
Davis
Irvine
SB
SC
Riverside
Merced.</p>
<p>However, let's review. If you're talking engineering, SD and LA are interchangeable. They are nearly tied for EECS, but if you talk about Bio E, you have to put SD in 2nd, possibly even first. If you talk EE/MSE, you have to put SB in front of Davis. Irvine's med/bio is very good so you have to put that in front of Davis. For engineering, Riverside beats the crap out of SC. If you talk about marine bio, then only SC and SD come out top. It's all relative.</p>
<p>BTW, I know ppl who got into SB but not Davis. But look at SB's 5 year engineering BS/MS programs. Their graduate engineering program is ranked #3? Isn't that ahead of Berkeley? LoL.</p>
<p>Remember, we're talking OVERALL rankings. You can see some huge gaps if you compare engineering.</p>
<p>Berkeley #3, LA #14, Irvine #50something</p>
<p>or business</p>
<p>Berkeley #3, LA #10</p>
<p>Sorry I'm doing this off teh top of my head from the 2004 US News.</p>
<p>UCSB's graduate engineering program is not ranked #3</p>
<p>Berkeley is ranked #3 for graduate engineering, #11 for UCSD, #15 for UCLA, and #21 for UCSB.</p>
<p>For graduate business, Berkeley is #6 (tied with Dartmouth), UCLA #11 (tied with Duke), UC Davis #42 (tied with Univ of Florida and Wake Forest), and UCI is #49 (tied with Rice).</p>
<p>The above is from the 2005 US News and World Reports.</p>
<p>Eifel, I'm not talking about general engineering. Look at Materials Science.</p>
<p>And once again I'm talking about UNDERGRADUATE business. Look at where Haas stands. Kthx.</p>
<p>According to US News, the UCs are ranked in this order:</p>
<ol>
<li>UC Berkeley (Go Bears!) (#1 Public)</li>
<li>UCLA (#4 Public)</li>
<li>UCSD (#8 Public)</li>
<li>UCD (#11 Public)</li>
<li>UCI (#12 Public)</li>
<li>UCSB (#13 Public)</li>
<li>UCSC (#32 Public-- tied w/ 4 other publics)</li>
<li>UCR (#37 Public)</li>
<li>UCM -- Unranked</li>
</ol>
<p>*Although UCR is now the fastest growing UC-- so it should catch up to UCSC eventually -- other than Cal, it is the only UC w/ a Business Admin Major so, if you wanna go business, then go UCR (tats of course if you didn't get in to Cal)</p>