<p>"IN CHINA:
1. HARVARD
2. YALE
3. STANFORD
4. PRINCETON
5. MIT
6. CORNELL(taiwan president went there)
7. COLUMBIA
8. BROWN
9. UPENN</p>
<p>they have no idea what CalTech, UCHICAGO, Duke, Berkeley are(although they do know University of California as a whole)."</p>
<p>Taiwan's main opposition leader AND the current President's son are Berkeley alumni (just graduated). If they share nothing else, at least they share an alma mater. And sorry, few people know Princeton. In China the list would go like</p>
<p>Harvard
Stanford
Berkeley
MIT/Yale</p>
<p>In India, since they value engineering, it is
MIT
Berkeley
Harvard
(all else)</p>
<p>UCLA and UCB will never privatize because a) they have more to lose than to gain, and b) it goes against their state mission of researching and educating in service of the State of California. If they privatize, then all their state funding will go to the other UCs, and UCSD, UCD, UCSB, etc. which will also become even more crowded, and we'll be left with a whole lot of angry parents and alumni.</p>
<p>Berkeley cannot privatize. Its mission is not to provide a top notch education but to provide a mass produced one. It seeks quantity over quality. Since Stanford and Caltech already fulfill California's needs for quality undergraduate educations, I see no need for Berkeley to privatize.</p>
<p>I was told once that Asian countries/citizens are more familiar with the UCLA, and all other UC campuses on the west coast only because Asia is closest to the West coast. I'm not sure how much of that is accurate.</p>
<p>Asian countries are indeed very familiar with the UC's, especially Berkeley and UCLA, mostly because of proximity, and also because a large number of enrolled students are Asian. Finally, Asian countries tend to value a school based on its science/engineering programs (considering that Asians tend to be more technologically driven), so UC Berkeley is very highly regarded.</p>
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UCLA and UCB will never privatize because a) they have more to lose than to gain, and b) it goes against their state mission of researching and educating in service of the State of California. If they privatize, then all their state funding will go to the other UCs, and UCSD, UCD, UCSB, etc. which will also become even more crowded, and we'll be left with a whole lot of angry parents and alumni.
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<p>Actually, in my discussions with professors across the board, there has been lots of talk of privatization at both campuses. Now, how much is talk worth? Beats me.</p>
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Berkeley cannot privatize. Its mission is not to provide a top notch education but to provide a mass produced one. It seeks quantity over quality. Since Stanford and Caltech already fulfill California's needs for quality undergraduate educations, I see no need for Berkeley to privatize.
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<p>It's nice to see Gutrade "trolling" along, as usual.</p>
<p>Which UC campus (aside from Berkeley) would be considered the best/most prestigious? Does each campus specialize in a different field or are the UC's just satellite campuses of each other?</p>
<p>UCLA would be next up, then San Diego. The whole UC system favors the sciences, in general, but I suppose each school has its perks. It just so happens that there is a lot of biotech industries in the area so it all depends on location. If you were to take a UC Santa Barbara, let's say, and stick it in the Silicon Valley, it'd be a premier science institution. San Diego is lucky in those respects. A lot of top professors are represented in all the schools because, heck, it's California! I checked out the list of Art History professors at UCI- which is not known for its Art History- and they're all from pretty high places. I think their primary occupation is sunning themselves on the beach during the day (two miles away), and teaching by night. The UCs are so big that almost every major you can think of is covered. In the end, however, the sciences will always prevail. Maybe it's driven by some notion that the sciences are the only field that's "ground-breaking" and "revolutionary" like the sleek Porsche's and BMWs on our freeways- it's how we Californian's like it, I suppose. I don't think I answered anything, but thanks for reading.</p>
<p>I somehow doubt that Brown and Dartmouth are that well-known internationally, considering I didn't really hear about them until I began my college search and looked at Ivies.</p>
<p>I dunno, but I think really big public school types are popular in India, based on how many people from places like IIT get their PhDs at like Ohio State or Penn State and such places.</p>