<p>in order</p>
<p>berkeley
texas
ucla
clemson
virginia
william and mary
georgia institute of technology
wisconsin
michigan
florida</p>
<p>UCSF = University of California, San Francisco</p>
<p>It does not have undergraduate programs. It is the West Coast's top-ranked med school, perenially beating out U. of Washington, Stanford, UCLA, UCD, etc. in most rankings.</p>
<p>It was started in San Francisco, after the University of California was first started in Berkeley over a hundred years ago. There were efforts to move it to Berkeley to be adjacent to the Berkeley campus or put it in neighboring Oakland. </p>
<p>It is a separate campus, but has functional equivalency of being Berkeley's med school in that it has a med degree program with Berkeley (MD=UCSF/Berkeley), a dual degree program with Berkeley's school of public health (MD, UCSF/MA, Public Health Berkeley), shares some professors, and has joint research labs in bioengineering and other places. And Berkeley is the only major UC campus not to have a dedicated medical school, because it was considered to already have one effectively in UCSF.</p>
<p>It has a new billion and a half dollar campus in San Francisco that is state of the art and that, according to some reports, has partly served as a model for Harvard's expansion plans which were recently announced across the Charles.</p>
<p>UCSF is not just a medical school; it has a dental school, the top nursing school in the nation (or one of them), and doctoral programs in natural science areas related to medicine. It receives the most NIH funding of any institution in California.</p>
<p>It was arguably the birthplace of biotech in that a professor there co-developed gene splicing and spun out the first real company based specifically on recombinant DNA technology, Genentech. UCSF's new campus has a flagship building called "Genentech Hall" which was so named because of a $50 million patent infringement award that the university won against the company.</p>
<p>Jayhawk: Clemson and Georgia Tech simply do not belong on that list.</p>
<p>Right, Clemson should not; but Georgia Tech has arguably a top 5 engineering and math department in the nation</p>
<p>Why not SUNY's? Are they bad to go too?</p>
<p>Georgia Tech is a good school, I agree, but its strengths lie in the maths and sciences. I think such a list should include all-arounds (IE: schools that are strong across the board).</p>
<p>W&M
Cal
Michigan
Virginia
North Carolina</p>
<p>what do you think of rutgers, especially the honors college
for poli sci and public policy?</p>
<p>Well what about Miami University in Ohio?</p>
<p>Cal
Mich
UCLA
UNC-CH
William + Mary
UVA
UT Austin
UF
UIUC
MU Ohio
UCSD
OSU
UMD
Wisconsin</p>
<p>there we go</p>
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Cal
Mich
UCLA
UNC-CH
William + Mary
UVA
UT Austin
UF
UIUC
MU Ohio
UCSD
OSU
UMD
Wisconsin
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<p>Seriously?!?!</p>
<p>i would like to add a number of the top cal states to this list just for the heck of it. They are better than the majority of flagship state schools and they are cheap, a mere 2-3k a year, cant remember the exact figure</p>
<p>this is such an opinion poll...look newsweek list...what are the first ten state schools that fall on it?</p>
<p>W&M-class by itself</p>
<p>top tier</p>
<p>Berkeley
UVirginia</p>
<p>second tier
UNC
Michigan</p>
<p>third tier
Wisconsin
Texas
Washington</p>
<p>Berkeley
UCLA
Texas
Michigan
UNC
W&M
UVA
OSU
Wisconsin
Illinois</p>
<p>
[quote]
W&M-class by itself</p>
<p>top tier</p>
<p>Berkeley
UVirginia</p>
<p>second tier
UNC
Michigan</p>
<p>third tier
Wisconsin
Texas
Washington
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<p>what the???</p>
<p>here is mine (only 1 school / state sorry UCLA, UCSD, Irvine, Davis and others :D) i would put ucla as top 10 public tho but i want 1 school / state :D</p>
<p>Berkeley
U of Virginia
UNC - CH
Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois - UC
UT - Austin
U of Maryland - CP
Penn State
U of Florida</p>
<p>PSU and UMD don't make the top ten. Pitt is just as good as PSU, and I know it's not top ten.</p>
<p>OSU is really underrated!! It's gotten pretty selective...even in-state, most kids need a 25 ACT/3.4 Gpa to get in!</p>
<p>i would add University of Colorado and take out schools like OSU and Maryland</p>