Hi what are the top public schools of the us
It’s very easy to do a google search for that info.
Some of the usual suspects:
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UVA
UMich
UNC Charlotte
UT-Austin
Wisconsin
Military Academies
Minnesota
UIUC
There are many more, and state flagships are often outstanding.
Thank you marvin100
I think @marvin100 meant UNC-Chapel Hill.
Ga Tech and College of William and Mary are other top ones.
Haha you’re right, @Jpgranier ! Old age, people, old age 
If the context is undergraduate education, I’d name (in no order applied): UC Berkeley, UCLA, U of Michigan, U of Virginia, UNC Chapel Hill, William and Mary, and Georgia Tech (with a tech focus). But really, there are outstanding honors programs at a number of schools and there are ones that are very, very good in given areas like University of Texas at Austin (engineering and business) and Illinois and Purdue (engineering).
In the context of being top notch research universities (amount and quality of research), I’d name UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco, U of Michigan, U of Washington, U of Wisconsin, UT Austin, UCLA, and UC San Diego.
@marvin100 UNC-Charlotte is not one of the top publics.
“I’d name UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco”
Two separate institutions. UCSF is not an undergraduate school.
That is why undergraduate schools are listed at the top part of my post and only Berkeley is listed there.
Bottom part was about research only and there is a fair amount of work that spans the two. They also have joint medical and bioengineering programs. I could have just put in a comma, because on its own, UC San Francisco ranks 4th in the country in R&D.
@TomSrOfBoston - see #4 and #5
Haha I was confused by the UNC-Charlotte remark. OP, it’s pretty easy to do a google search for all this info ^.
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Ivy
If you are interested in public liberal arts schools, you may want to look at SUNY Geneseo, SUNY New Paltz, The College of New Jersey, Ramapo, Mary Washington, UNC - Asheville, New College, St. Mary’s (MD), and Evergreen State College.
The Universities of California (Berkeley, UCLA, etc.), Michigan, UNC, Ga. Tech, and the University of Virginia are elite public schools that receive very many applications, including EA applications. The same is true on a smaller scale for William and Mary, which is a smaller school. Universities of Florida and Texas (Austin) only admit a small number of out-of-state (OSS) students. Among other leading schools, Washington, Georgia, Penn State, and Wisconsin are outstanding universities that admit a lot of OSSs. They receive large but not overwhelming numbers of OSS applications. Alabama offers a lot of financial aid to OSSs and admits a higher %. Other flagships that I think can be particularly interesting options: Oregon/Vermont (for nature), Massachusetts-Amherst (for 5-school consortium). For science/engineering, Clemson, Va. Tech, Cal Poly, and Texas A&M, among others, provide top-level educations. Good luck!
^ In 2016, Washington received 20,975 apps from US OOS, 11,806 from WA, and 10,742 from internationals.
UWfromCA, thanks for correction. I knew Washington gets lots and lots of CA application. The total numbers are higher than I thought–great for the school, which is beautiful and in a great location. Because so many are from CA, I think it might be a better bet for students not from there or other nearby states in terms of their chances of acceptance. One of my kids considered the school and would have been applying from a state from which relatively few apply.
Good points, @TTG. At Washington’s Freshmen Convocation, they often highlight students from distant locations in the US and around the world.
In 2015, about 55% of Washington’s OOS US applicants were from California.
UCSF is, in essence, the medical school of UC Berkeley. It officially was the Medical Department of UC Berkeley at the start, but it got separated into its own campus for administrative reasons when the University of California started to create new campuses. UCLA was originally the “southern branch” of Berkeley until the 1950s. UC Davis and UC Riverside were originally agricultural research centers for UC Berkeley, etc., UC San Diego was originally an oceanograpshy research center for UC Berkeley, etc.
UCBerkeley and UCSF remain more heavily intertwined than the other campuses. A lot of universities have their medical schools on separate campuses. Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, etc. I think that if the UC Regents hadn’t split them apart, UC Berkeley/UCSF would be viewed as the premier research institution in the world.
Actually UCLA changed name from Southern Branch to UCLA in 1927. Hastings is another UC campus that only has grad school, as it is the UC law school. UCSF was first named “the Medical Department of the University of California” when Toland medical school was deeded to UC by the regents. So it was technically never a Cal med school.