<p>Some of us have aspirations to do something more socially responsible and ethically sound than work for a giant corrupt banking corporation.</p>
<p>Some people want to do something socially responsible, some people just want to make money, some people are drowning in 100k+ of student loans and would be in debt until they are 40+ unless they take an Ibanking-type job. YOU might not want to work there, but there are a lot of people who have good reason to want to work there.</p>
<p>In any case, we are getting off track. I don’t think you can really compare Cal Poly and the UCs since they were created for entirely different purposes. The CA Master Plan for Higher Education created the CSUs to train people to go straight to work after undergrad and become the bulk of the CA workforce. A CSU education tends to be much more practical, focusing on real-world application. The UCs were created to conduct research and prepare people for grad school by providing a much more theoretical approach. Cal Poly and UCB fill different rolls, but both do them really well. Rankings don’t really capture their difference in priorities.</p>
<p>In the end, the accuracy of USNWR rankings for engineering and other things depends on what your priorities are. If you want to get a job as something like an Ibanker or a university professor or a judge on the federal circuit court system, then they are largely correct. For most other people, however, other factors that aren’t considered render them much less useful.</p>
<p>@DarkSaber- Get out of here with that bullsh^&. You act like the poor starving college graduate is forced to work for an IBank hahahaha. The other 99.9 percent of college graduates who don’t work for an exploitative bank with a government sanctioned monopoly seem to make due.</p>
<p>Cool job- yes. Way to get back at everyone in High School who laughed at you- definitely.
Morally correct and or honorable- NO
Will you help people and leave a positive impact- Never</p>
<p>Hahah I love ethical debates ^^^.</p>
<p>Anyways in regards to the answers to the original topic, I am also curious about this subject.</p>
<p>Although, I think many of the answers are in need of sources (or it will be appreciated :D) or they need to be less vague. Sorry if I seem like a skeptic (I am), but its funny of how taking a logic class (informal fallacies -_-) or any philosophy class makes you really question things.</p>
<p>‘There must be a reason for why Cal Poly graduates have some of the highest starting and mid-career salary in the US’ is there a source for this? And it would also depend on their field of study of course.</p>
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<p>you’re out of your mind if you think the UCs are financially in the same positions as the CSUs; the UCs have much higher endowments and resources in general. CPSLO’s endowment is like 100 million; UCLA’s alone is 1.8billion, berkeley is ~2billion. </p>
<p>in addition to that, classes at the UCs are getting made very readily available so that they can get students to graduate faster and enroll more students. The applicants that they’re accepting are OOS students which will pay higher fees to support the school. </p>
<p>CPSLO is no doubt the top calstate, but it’s going to be raped by budget cuts, much, much worse than any of the top UCs (maybe as bad as the mid-range ones like UCI or UCD) to try to say that UCLA or Cal is in the same position as CPSLO is absurd.</p>
<p>While i’m sure that CSUN and CPSLO have top-tier graduates, i doubt that they have as many as UCLA/Cal; or that they have access to the same quality of resources.</p>