<p>Question is in the topic.</p>
<p>Uh... I guess... San Diego? Santa Barbara? San Francisco?</p>
<p>I'd go with one of these three...</p>
<p>San Diego of course.</p>
<p>UCSD. UCSF is really just graduate medical programs--and one of the best.</p>
<p>I was thinking about the dental school.</p>
<p>Bah.</p>
<p>San Diego. No question.</p>
<p>San Diego, without a doubt. You could make an argument for Irvine or Santa Barbara but those two campuses still can't compare with SD.</p>
<p>For prestige... San Francisco... it's arguably just as prestigious as Berkeley for what it does... but it is very specialized. </p>
<p>So San Diego is probably the more practical third UC</p>
<p>probably UCSD. if you're talking about "prestige" you're dealing with a subjective term anyways...so because of UCSB's enormous party scene and UCI's...let's call it well known lack of student diversity, i don't think people will grant them as much prestige. but i would agree those are probably the other two in line after UCSD.</p>
<p>I should have mentioned undergraduate and in terms of difficulty of admission and academic rigour. So UCSD it is?</p>
<p>Yes, it's UCSD. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>UCSD of course.</p>
<p>Not inclusing UCSF</p>
<p>UCB
UCLA
UCSD
UCSB
UCI
UCD
UCSC
UCR
UCM</p>
<p>better ranking:</p>
<p>UCB
UCLA
UCSD
UCD-UCI-UCSB (alpha order)
UCR-UCSC (alpha order)
UCM</p>
<p>But, of course, any campus can have a better program than another (excluding Cal). For example, UCSB has a highly-regarded religious studies major.</p>
<p>i'm fairly certain irvine is the 4th ranked UC after UCSD in terms of academic presitge.</p>
<p>Brian:</p>
<p>the mid-tier UCs are awesome in their own right, but you are much better person than I to be able to discern such differences with confidence. UCI is definitely up and coming, but I'd still put UCD & UCSB on an even par. It takes a LONG time to build an educational brand (Harvard has been at it for over 400 years), and I believe that UCI can move up into SD's stratosphere in the next decade or two; but, for now, Davis offers a better college town experience, and SB has some highly regarded departments, not to mention Nobel Laureates. Outside of California, neither of the three is perceived as better than the other nor Irvine.</p>
<p>"I believe that UCI can move up into SD's stratosphere in the next decade or two"</p>
<p>-i love uci, but i think that is a bit optimistic. ucsd has many many more highly rated programs and has 10 nobel laureates. uci, while getting much better as of of late, has a long way to go to catch sd or enter the top tier of the uc system with sd la and berkeley.</p>
<p>UCI has very little chance of passing UCSD in terms of "prestige" in the next 10 years. UCSD was named "Hottest School for Science"... UCI isn't going to narrow the gap; UCSD is going to make the gap wider.</p>