Top 10 State Schools.

College Search & Selection
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<p>I think it should be: </p>

<p>UVA, Berkeley, UCLA, UNC, Michigan, Wisconsin, UF, Maryland, Binghamton, Indiana</p>

<p>Then again I don’t know much about the state schools just which ones have some good programs and which are most popular in my school.</p>

<p>And Pierre0913 your probably right. I’m thinking of majoring in Political Science or International Relations, although I did get into Indiana’s business school, so unfortunately it’s a bit harder to judge those programs. The three state schools I applied to and got into are Wisconsin, Binghamton, and Indiana. I’m having a hard time choosing between them.</p>

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<p>UVA
William & Mary
Rest doesn’t matter because they pale in comparison</p>

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<p>see I can’t argue with that, you can easily say that Binghamton and Indiana are better schools than UC-Davis or UC-Irvine, I think that we are getting to a point after the top 5 where any attempt at ranking public schools would be counterproductive and would cause some excellent schools to go under the radar.</p>

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<p>All of you UVA lovers still haven’t shown me any statistics of why UVA is so great. Furthermore, anyone who places UVA ahead of Berkeley is clueless in my opinion.</p>

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<p>look at the graduation rate, look at the retention rates, look at the size of the school, and you’ll begin to see what I mean about UVA</p>

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<p>“I respectfully disagree, UVA is definitely much better than Michigan”</p>

<p>Pierre, can you please explain your statement? What makes UVa “much better” than Michigan?</p>

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<p>Show me the comparison stats pierre0913. I showed you some of mine. I’ll give you the fact that UVA is smaller.</p>

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<p>I’m writing my english thesis right now, I’ll dig up the stats tomorrow when I have time to argue this out ok?</p>

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<p>

It’s called Google</p>

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<p>Yes I know StevenSeagal. I backed up my statements.</p>

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<ol>
<li>University of California–Berkeley * 4.7</li>
<li>Georgia Institute of Technology * 4.5</li>
<li>U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign * 4.5</li>
<li>University of Michigan–Ann Arbor * 4.4</li>
<li>University of Texas–Austin * 4.2</li>
<li>Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison * 4.0</li>
<li>Pennsylvania State U.–University Park * 3.8</li>
<li>Univ. of California–Los Angeles * 3.7</li>
<li>University of Washington * 3.7</li>
<li>Ohio State University–Columbus * 3.6</li>
<li>Univ. of California–San Diego * 3.6</li>
<li>Univ. of Maryland–College Park * 3.6</li>
<li>University of Florida * 3.5</li>
<li>University of Virginia * 3.4</li>
</ol>

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<p>~2,000 academics rated each school’s academic programs like this:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Berkeley 4.7/5.0</p></li>
<li><p>Michigan 4.4/5.0</p></li>
<li><p>Virginia 4.3/5.0</p></li>
<li><p>UCLA 4.2/5.0</p></li>
<li><p>UNC, Wisconsin 4.1/5.0</p></li>
<li><p>Georgia Tech, Illinois, Texas 4.0/5.0</p></li>
<li><p>Washington 3.9/5.0
…</p></li>
<li><p>UCSD, UC Davis 3.8/5.0</p></li>
<li><p>William & Mary, Penn State, Purdue, Indiana 3.7/5.0</p></li>
<li><p>Florida, Maryland, Ohio State, Minnesota 3.6/5.0</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>Here is my list, in order (clearly reflecting a pro-California bias). </p>

<p>Berkeley
UCLA
Michigan
UCSD
UVA
UNC
UT-Austin
UC-Davis
UC-Irvine
UC-Santa Barbara</p>

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<p>^ Looks pretty good, Bruin, cept I’d swap UCSB and UCI.</p>

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<p>quantize, what happened to Purdue?</p>

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<p>Okay here’s my top 10:</p>

<ol>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
</ol>

<p>slight drop</p>

<ol>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Virginia</li>
</ol>

<p>slight drop</p>

<ol>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>William & Mary</li>
</ol>

<p>slight drop</p>

<ol>
<li>Georgia Tech</li>
<li>North Carolina</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
</ol>

<p>slight drop </p>

<ol>
<li>Texas-Austin</li>
<li>UC-San Diego</li>
</ol>

<p>Honorable Mention: UIUC, UC-Davis, Washington, Florida, Maryland</p>

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<p>JiffsMom, looks like Purdue was overlooked. Here’s the undergrad engineering rank:
Best Colleges Specialty Rankings: Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs </p>

<p>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 4.7927
2 Stanford University Stanford, CA 4.651
2 University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA 4.6615
4 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 4.5134
4 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 4.5155
4 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL 4.4503
7 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 4.4032
8 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 4.2766
9 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 4.1905
9 Purdue University–West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN 4.1875
11 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 4.0718
11 University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX 4.1459
13 University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI 3.9663
14 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 3.8859
14 Northwestern University Evanston, IL 3.9231
14 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 3.8715
17 Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA 3.828
17 Rice University Houston, TX 3.8047
17 Texas A&M University–College Station College Station, TX 3.8103
17 University of California–San Diego La Jolla, CA 3.7622
21 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 3.6868
21 University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 3.68
21 University of Maryland–College Park College Park, MD 3.6798
21 University of Washington Seattle, WA 3.6784
25 Columbia University New York, NY 3.5833
25 Duke University Durham, NC 3.5866
25 University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN 3.6494
28 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 3.5091
28 North Carolina State University–Raleigh Raleigh, NC 3.5322
28 Ohio State University–Columbus Columbus, OH 3.4943
28 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 3.5029
28 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 3.5466
28 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 3.497
28 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 3.4615
35 University of California–Davis Davis, CA 3.3736
35 University of California–Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 3.3648
35 University of Colorado–Boulder Boulder, CO 3.4294</p>

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<p>

Size and resources go together. Michigan has more faculty and better resources. There are virtually no difference in class size distribution between the two:</p>

<p>% Class
Size…Mich…UVa
<10 … 12 … 18
10-19 … 32 … 32
20-29 … 26 … 19
30-39 … 8 … 11
40-49 … 4 … 6
50-99 … 11 … 8
100+ … 7 … 6</p>

<p>Class <40: Mich 70%; UVa 69%</p>

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<p>Thanks UCBChemEGrad! For a minute there, I thought I must have missed whatever catastrophic event caused Purdue’s fall from perennial recognition for their school of engineering. You never know… :eek:</p>

<p>Maybe quantize was unaware that Purdue is a state school.</p>

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<p>My personal opinion: </p>

<ol>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UNC</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>Georgia Tech</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>UT Austin</li>
<li>Washington</li>
</ol>

<p>2, 3, and 4 are pretty close.</p>