<p>UC's and other state schools are taking a nose dive and are cutting back on programs and teachers. Will some of these schools drop considerably under US News rankings?</p>
<p>“Nose dive” is probably an exaggeration, but if the funding cuts continue and and key faculty start to leave, there will be long, slow slide in the quality of the UCs.</p>
<p>Have you even read the articles on the cuts privates are doing since their endowments were cut 40%?? They may be in worse shape.</p>
<p>Hard to say, and both coureur and barrons are right. If, over time, the UCs lose key faculty, their reputations could slip, and other cuts might mean graduation rates would go down, so small effects like that could be seen. </p>
<p>However, the fact that many institutions are facing the same thing (or worse), it might be that the UCs would lose few faculty (where are they going to jump ship to?) and that everyone will have the same issues with grad rates, overall financial resources, etc…so no top school will be singled out as having declined more than the others.</p>
<p>If UC’s quality would go down doesn’t that mean that the acceptance rate will be the opposite of what people say? Normally if the faculty is laid off and buildings are sold the acceptance rate would go down but if school’s integrity goes down as well does that mean they’ll accept more at the time time?</p>
<p>A running tide lowers all boats.</p>
<p>I suspect the big dogs like UC Berkeley and UCLA will do just fine. Counterintuitively, places like Michigan and Michigan State, that have had to deal with dwindling state support for years, may move up simply because the impacts on their budgets with be comparatively lower.</p>
<p>Who knows?</p>