<p>This is always a fun game that gets people a bit aggravated.
Let’s narrow it down to research universities that grant degrees up to the Ph.D level and carry an undergraduate program. Use whatever measures you want to pick your favorites.</p>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>UCSB</li>
<li>UCI</li>
<li>UCD</li>
<li>UCSC</li>
<li>UCR</li>
<li>UCM</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>UCSB</li>
<li>UCD</li>
<li>UCI</li>
<li>UCSC</li>
<li>UCR</li>
<li>UCM</li>
</ol>
<p>Stanford, Cal Tech, Berkeley, who cars about the rest lol :)</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Berk</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol>
<p>Top five. Did someone previously REALLY think that UCSD is better than Southern Cal? </p>
<p>I totally think not.</p>
<ol>
<li>CalTech</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Pomona/Harvey Mudd</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>Pepperdine woo hoo my friend is going there</li>
</ol>
<p>a little personal reference esp with UCLA below USC</p>
<p>Can we do that? I just posted my top five universities rank, I'll do a CA liberal arts one (actually, it'd just be a ranking of the Claremonts, pretty much).</p>
<ol>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>Claremont McKenna</li>
<li>Harvey Mudd</li>
<li>Scripps</li>
<li>Occidental</li>
</ol>
<p>Pitzer and Mills round them out. California lacks many liberal arts colleges.</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Cal Tech/Cal</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>UCI/UCD</li>
<li>UCSB</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>UCSB</li>
<li>UCD</li>
<li>UCI</li>
<li>UCSC</li>
<li>UCR</li>
<li>UCM</li>
</ol>
<p>my top 5:
1. Stanford
2. Caltech
3. Berkeley
4. UCLA
5. UCSD</p>
<p>(So yeah, I agree that UCSD beats USC)</p>
<p>I got a question...how would your rank the colleges for a BusEcon major? Thank you</p>
<p>big 4x4,</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
</ol>
<p>Claremont McKenna would be in that mix too as an LAC.</p>
<p>Where would sb and sd rank?</p>
<p>Did you know there is a prostitute college in S.F.? I wonder how that will fair in the new USNews rankings.</p>
<p>GentlemanandScholar,
The SF college you mentioned would probably get high scores from US News for several categories including Alumni giving rate, % faculty that are full time, faculty resources rank, % of class under 20, avg freshman retention rate, overperformance (+)/underperformance (-), and of course Overall score. However, the institution would have difficulties with the following categories: peer assessment score, acceptance rank, SAT/ACT, freshman in top 10% of HS class.</p>
<p>I really don't understand how people can rank UCSD higher than USC. I'm curious to how these people came to this conclusion. </p>
<p>I mean just a quick look through the major academic programs:</p>
<p>Business: USC >>>> UCSD
Engineering: USC = UCSD
Biological Sciences: UCSD >> USC
Communication/Journalism: USC >> UCSD
Music: USC >> UCSD
Theatre: USC >> UCSD
Public Policy: USC > UCSD
Oceanography: UCSD >> USC</p>
<p>I don't even think UCSD has these programs for UG:</p>
<p>Architecture: USC
Cinema: USC
Social Work: USC
International Relations: USC</p>
<p>In terms of prestige:</p>
<p>USC > UCSD</p>
<p>Stanford
UC Berkeley
Caltech
UCLA
UCSD
USC
UCSB</p>
<p>[ol]
[<em>]Stanford
[</em>]Berkeley
[<em>]Caltech
[</em>]UCLA
[li]UCSD[/li][/ol]</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
</ol>
<p>1) Stanford
2) CALTECH
3) Berkeley
4) USC
5) UCLA
6) Pomona
7) Claremont
8) UCSD
9) UCSB
10)UCDavis</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>everything else</li>
</ol>