<p>" "Academically there is not even a contest" What!?!"</p>
<p>-ok then, if you feel pepperdine is in the same academic league as ucsb, show me some highly rated academic programs at pepperdine. i doubt you can find 3, hell probably not even 1 or 2. so im not sure how you can even be argueing pepperdines academics. a school without any highly rated programs cannot exactly be an excellent academic university.</p>