<p>Okay, so theres a thread for the worst university in the cafe, but lets do the BEST public university in the nation. You can do it by regions if you want:</p>
<p>North East:
South East:
South West:
North West:
Mid West:
Etc.</p>
<p>South East: UNC-Chapel Hill!</p>
<p>southwest: i soo have to say either UCLA or UC Berkeley</p>
<p>northeast: umich ann arbor</p>
<p>Amazing how poor the geography is here. Let's see, UCB and UCLA would be West Coast as opposed to SW. UMIChigan would be MW, not NE.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley is the best public school in the nation. Why even divide areas by geography? lol</p>
<p>UMICH is considered mid west.
Northeast is the new-england mid atlantic aread (think delaware up and east of ohio)
Mid west is the great lakes area and the stuff in the north east of the rockies.
South East is east of texas and south of delaware
Northwest is idaho, montana, oregon, and washington
Southwest is TX, NM, AR, NV, and Cali. maybe utah too.
Colorado and wyoming can be their own category (Mountain-west).</p>
<p>East coast- UCB
West Coast- UVA, UNC
Midwest-U Mich
Southwest-UTAustin</p>
<p>God, the geography gets worse by the minute. Yup, UCB is the top East Coast Private!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And UVA the top West Coast!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I think he/she just made a mistake and switched the two lines...</p>
<p>lol I did...for some reason I was going to put pacific ucb..then..I started with east and still had ucb on my mine and accidentaly put that</p>
<p>Northeast: Binghamton or UConn
Mid-Atlantic: Virginia
South: UNC-Chapel Hill
Texas: Texas ;)
Midwest: Michigan
West Coast: UC-Berkeley
Pacific Northwest: Washington
Rocky Mountains: Eh...maybe Colorado
Southwest: Arizona?</p>
<p>There we go. Let's see who breaks it up even more. :p</p>
<p>Are we doing conferences next?</p>
<p>Wow, is UConn really that good?</p>
<p>Yes. 50% acceptance and steadily falling, business school among top twenty public nationally, top gifted education program in the world on some lists, top twenty school of family services and social work, $2B+ campus, arguably the best dentistry program in the country, incredibly good medical program, excellent engineering program, better law school acceptance rate than Yale (take that!), one of the best pharmacy programs in the country, 80% of students in top 25% of high school class, 70 individual research centers, 1200 entering SAT on old test, etc.</p>
<p>Excellent programs all around, really. I don't know why so many people leave it off their list and instead look to schools like UMass (89% acceptance, no funding, hideous campus) and Rutgers (over 60%, larger classes, more red tape, consistently low "happiness" rankings). I honestly don't get it.</p>
<p>Public University... I would say is UCB...</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>being a CT resident, i can say that Uconn is alright. Not great, but not poor. good for bball though haha</p>
<p>US News has UConn ranked highest in the Northeast region, unless you count Pennsylvania in which case Penn State is higher by a few spots. US News rankings aren't everything, however (or even close to it).</p>
<p>Penn State did give me pause, but I still would personally put UConn and Binghamton over them, based on overall strength, top-to-bottom UG -> doctoral programs, and several other factors. I'm sure that could just be me, however.</p>
<p>What about Wisconsin? Where does it stand compared to other publics? Similar to UMich?</p>
<p>Penn State has one of the best honors programs I've ever seen. I almost turned down Cornell for it until I realized I was bound by Early Decision...</p>