Just how much liberal BIAS and south hater is USNews?

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<p>seriously, any ranking (AWRU) that has UC-San Francisco near the top can’t be credible for someone looking for an undergraduate school…</p>

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<p>We already know USNews ranking is full of it. How? Find one single major ranked at UT below the secondary UC-Davis, Irvine and Santa Barbara.</p>

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<p>Those would be averaged into engineering, no?</p>

<p>Face it, your second best school is on par with our fourth best.</p>

<p>And Bio Sciences (pre-med) and AgEcon are two of the most popular majors at Davis. As posted on the last page, they rank far above A&M.</p>

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<p>Yes, that would explain why ETH Zurich is ranked so lowly, it has no Asians! Oh wait…</p>

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<p>Sure, if it makes sense to you, by all means! :-)</p>

<p>Texas is almost as populated as California, keep that in mind.</p>

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<p>well SuperPippo, the problem is that US News doesn’t rank any undergraduate majors other than engineering and business and I doubt schools only have engineering and business majors…</p>

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<p>Biological Sciences Specialty Rankings: Ecology / Evolutionary Biology
Ranked in 2007
1 University of Chicago Chicago, IL
2 Harvard University Boston, MA
2 University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA
4 University of California–Davis Davis, CA
5 Duke University Durham, NC
6 Cornell University Ithica, NY
7 Stanford University Stanford, CA
8 Princeton University Princeton, NJ
** University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX**
10 University of Georgia Athens, GA </p>

<p>There’s one…</p>

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What if someone wants to go to a school where there is good research going on? Who cares if the next one on the list isn’t currently an option if the ranking is sound?</p>

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<p>Yes, UT is below UC-Irvine according to USNews. A pretty ridicolous source of information as already exposed.</p>

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<p>Departmental rankings are almost never done at the undergrad level, and when they are none of them are useful because they still depend on research productivity. Exactly how you rank departmental strength at the undergrad level solely? You can’t.</p>

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<p>those are graduate school rankings…</p>

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<p>research output doesn’t tell you anything about a school, it may mean that the professors are too busy doing research to even care about undergrads or it may mean that the professors involve their students…who knows?</p>

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<p>California’s population 150% that of Texas. Almost? Tsk tsk.</p>

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<p>Which rankings do you use, again?</p>

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<p>Fact is nobody knows UC Davis, Irvine and Santa Barbara outside of California. UT is well regarded as a top school nationwide.</p>

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<p>He claimed A&M’s departments were much higher ranked than that of Davis, I provided evidence otherwise. Get it?</p>

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<p>Wow, ECOLOGY, that’s definitely a popular major and a good indicator of what school is best. ROTFLMAO</p>

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<p>oh no, don’t play the “my school is more prestigious than yours” card…</p>

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<p>fact. Overall engineering school and business school at Texas A&M are much better than at UC Davis. Even for the ridicolously biased USNews.</p>

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<p>Here’s my version of what you did in post 14:</p>

<p>Stanford = no real comparison
UC Berkeley/LA = Rice
UCSD = UT Austin
UC Davis = TA&M
UC Santa Barbara/Irvine = no real comparison
UC Santa Cruz = Texas Tech
UC Riverside = UT Dallas
UC Merced = UTEP</p>

<p>Academically.</p>

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<p>Ever heard of pre-med? And I already posted how Davis kills A&M when it comes to Biological Sciences on the whole. Davis 23rd, A&M 68th.</p>

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<p>Is that why Davis received 42,000 applications this year, while Austin got something like 28,000?</p>