California private and public universities ranking (per Forbes)

<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Claremont McKenna</li>
<li>Harvey Mudd</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Scripps</li>
<li>Santa Clara</li>
<li>Occidental</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>Westmont</li>
<li>Pepperdine<br></li>
<li>Pitzer </li>
<li>Thomas Aquinas </li>
<li>UC San Diego<br></li>
<li>UC Santa Barbara<br></li>
<li>UC Irvine </li>
<li>Redlands<br></li>
<li>The Master's Seminary<br></li>
<li>UC Davis</li>
<li>Cal Poly SLO</li>
<li>U. of San Francisco<br></li>
<li>U. of San Diego</li>
<li>Saint Mary's</li>
<li>UC Santa Cruz</li>
<li>Loyola Marymount</li>
<li>Biola University</li>
<li>Whittier College</li>
<li>Mills College</li>
<li>Cal Lutheran</li>
<li>La Verne</li>
<li>Mount St Mary's College</li>
<li>Chapman</li>
<li>UC Riverside</li>
<li>Cal Poly Pomona</li>
<li>San Jose State</li>
<li>Cal Maritime<br></li>
<li>U. of the Pacific</li>
<li>San Diego State</li>
<li>Fresno State</li>
<li>Long Beach State </li>
<li>Chico State</li>
<li>Sacramento State </li>
<li>Cal State Fullerton</li>
<li>Azusa Pacific </li>
<li>Cal State Northridge </li>
<li>Vanguard</li>
<li>Cal State San Bernardino </li>
<li>San Francisco State</li>
</ol>

<p>Any thoughts?</p>

<p>1 word - lol</p>

<p>Sent from my GT-I9300 using CC</p>

<p>Why, yes!</p>

<p>How does the list change if I am a student who wants to study . . .
fine arts (CA College of the Arts isn’t there)
engineering (Cal Poly SLO moves way up the list)
literature (Mills moves way up the list)
nursing (Pomona moves way down the list)
marine biology (UCSC moves way up)</p>

<p>What was rankings criteria? Ranking order definitely changes according to what the criteria is.</p>

<p>Forbes ranking is a joke lolol</p>

<p>I agree that Forbes’ rankings tend to be a bit silly. I remember one where they ranked Palo Alto as one of the top 10 college sports towns in America, and they listed New York, Tokyo and London as among the top 10 most beautiful cities in the world.</p>

<p>I have the impression that the highest rankings go to wherever the Forbes writers went to school or lived.</p>