<p>Subjectively rank the UCs based on whatever you want.</p>
<p>Here’s mine, based mostly on academics/prestige:</p>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Los Angeles</li>
<li>San Diego</li>
<li>Davis</li>
<li>Irvine</li>
<li>Santa Barbara</li>
<li>Santa Cruz</li>
<li>Riverside</li>
<li>Merced</li>
</ol>
<p>University of California – Berkeley
University of California – Los Angeles
University of California – San Diego
University of California – Santa Barbara
University of California – Irvine
University of California – Davis
University of California – Riverside
University of California – Merced</p>
<ol>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Los Angeles</li>
<li>San Diego</li>
<li>Irvine</li>
<li>Davis</li>
<li> Santa Barbara</li>
<li>Santa Cruz</li>
<li>Riverside</li>
<li>Merced</li>
</ol>
<p>Cal
ucla
ucsd
ucsb
uci
ucr
ucsc
ucm</p>
<p>prestige and personal experience. Give UCR a Decade and it will be 4 or 5</p>
<p>We should make a rule to omit the school you attend or a brawl may break out.
I go to UCSD</p>
<p>1)UCB
2)UCLA
3)UCD
4)UCI
5)UCSB
6)UCSC
7)UCR
8)UCM</p>
<p>Well this thread was stupid… let me copy and paste the rankings from USNEWS…</p>
<p>And Jason, yeah right about UCR. It gets pushed up in the magical ranking game one year and everyone thinks it is now on its way to joining the ranks of UCD/UCSB/UCI? lol. BTW, what is your personal experience, since you have not attended a UC yet.</p>
<p>This is like the 17th time I’ve seen this thread be made. @_@ Really, why?</p>
<p>Double Post.</p>
<p>1-3 and 7-9 have a fairly standard and agreed upon order; there isn’t really any room for “personal opinion”.</p>
<p>You can tell UCI has its eyes set on joining ranks with UCSD. But for now, UCI/UCD/UCSB are fairly level.</p>
<p>Pointless thread.</p>
<p>He was asking to base them off of whatever you want, not just copy them from USNWR.</p>
<p>Rank based on my major (linguistics):</p>
<p>UCSC
UCLA
UCB
UCSD
UCSB
UCD
Don’t even know if the others have it.</p>
<p>I omitted my own UC…</p>
<p>UCLA
UC San Diego
--------------- gap (in the case of selectivity at least… and arguably academic prestige)
UC Davis (UCD has historically been in the top-4; and IMO, it still is)
UC Irvine/UC Santa Barbara (face it, it’s a tie)
--------------- gap (ditto above)
UC Santa Cruz
UC Riverside
UC Merced (though UCM may be too new to be fairly ranked; give it a few years)</p>
<p>If Cal Poly were a UC, it’d be somewhere around or a bit below UCI/UCSB.</p>
<p>Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
----- (gap)
Davis
UCSB
Irvine
----- (gap)
UCSC
UCR
UCM (perhaps it should be tied with Riverside)</p>
<p>In terms of average alumni salary, which is what I determine the worth of an institution, this is how the CA colleges look in rankings:</p>
<p>-UC Berkeley (1)
-UCLA (3)
Cal Poly SLO (3)
UCSD (3)
-UCD (6)
-UCI (8)
-San Jose State (13)
-UCSB (14)
-UCSC (unranked)
UCR (unranked)
UCM (unranked)</p>
<p>[In</a> Pictures: Top Public Colleges For Getting Rich - Forbes.com](<a href=“In Pictures: Top Public Colleges For Getting Rich”>In Pictures: Top Public Colleges For Getting Rich)</p>
<p>Academics/Prestige:
UCB/UCLA
UCSD/UCI/UCD/UCSB
UCSC
UCR/UCM</p>
<p>UCB
… gap…
UCLA
… gap…
ucsd/uci/ucd/ucsb
… gap…
ucsc
… gap…
ucr/ucm</p>
<p>i look at things in an interesting way? :D</p>
<p>This is the way i see it…</p>
<p>High Tier ----
UCB
UCLA</p>
<p>Hi-Mid Tier ----
UCSD</p>
<p>Mid Tier ----
UCD/UCI/UCSB in any order you want</p>
<p>Low Tier ----
UCSC
UCR/UCM</p>
<p>There’s a significant gap between the GPAs and SATs of enrolled students at UCSC and UCR/UCM (as much as the gap between the high tier UCs and mid-tiers UCs in relation to UCSD) so I’m not sure why people lump those together :)</p>
<p>Maybe they weren’t basing their rankings off of the GPAs and SATs of enrolled students?</p>
<p>If they’re ranking by subjectivity that’s an even better reason to rank UCSC above Riverside and Merced IMO :)</p>