<p>what is the worst/best state school?</p>
<p>i say UNC is best and west Virginia is worst</p>
<p>a lot of people here are going to say that UC Berkeley or U of M is the best</p>
<p>UC Berkeley's the best. UC Merced's the worst.</p>
<p>William & Mary is by far the best for undergrads.</p>
<p>East Carolina/West Virginia- worst? so many to choose from.</p>
<p>I don't think it's fair to say that UC Merced is the worst--it's too new to say. (Not to mention with the tons of money being poured into the school to build new facilities and such...)</p>
<p>It's hard to say which state university is the "worst." There comes a point when they're all pretty much equal in quality. Among the top 100 (as per US News)?</p>
<p>Best: Berkeley (duh...)
Worst: UC Riverside, Clemson</p>
<p>worst is Arizona state.</p>
<p>Some of the best:
Berkeley
UVA
U of Chicago
Binghamton</p>
<p>^^ U Chicago's probably the best public school, actually... ;)</p>
<p>Worst is Arizona State? Don't think so. Last I checked, Arizona State was on USNWR's ranking of top national universities. I can name a lot of state schools that you've probably never heard of that wouldn't even make tier 5 on that list. Arizona State certainly isn't among them.</p>
<p>You can do worse than UC Riverside. Maybe CSU Chico or something...</p>
<p>community colleges are state schools... so they get my vote for worst</p>
<p>I don't want to be a hater, but I'd think that some random state schools in the South are pretty awful. Or states like Wyoming, Montana, and West Virgina...</p>
<p>there are some pretty horrible small state schools here in louisiana. if you're talking flagships LSU would probably be towards the bottom of the list also</p>
<p>University of Chicago? Chicago is a city...</p>
<p>I think you meant University of Pennsylvania. Yeah, PA's best public state school.</p>
<p>Best in Virginia:</p>
<p>William and Mary
University of Virginia</p>
<p>Worst:Norfolk State, UVA/Wise, Radford</p>
<p>UChicago and UPenn are privates...</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Trolled.</p>
<p>hmm, I'm pretty sure Arizona State is worst too. Ranks don't mean much, and have any of you read the scandal a while back? Arizona tried to bribe one of the leading magazine in ranking school for $10k. It's also a party school...not a very good school in terms of academics</p>
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<p>Yeah the latter two were kidding.</p>
<p>Best - Berk/UVA
Worst - UTSA</p>
<p>"Best: Berkeley (duh...)
Worst: UC Riverside, Clemson"</p>
<p>^^Why do you say Clemson for worst? I thought Clemson was a fairly good school.</p>