<p>While I agree that Berkeley is at the top of all of the publics, Michigan is the top public that is the most well rounded. There is no single campus state school in this country that does so many things as well…</p>
<p>“Students have to prove themselves with college coursework. Not high school and AP tests.”</p>
<p>Yeah, well Ross starts with an ‘R’ and Haas starts with an ‘H’ so Ross is better. My reasoning is better than yours.</p>
<p>Wisconsin is also very well rounded.</p>
<p>Oops, I forgot to add “not that there’s anything wrong with that!” ;)</p>
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<p>Emphasis mine ;)</p>
<p>“but I would have been very proud to have attended UCB otherwise - the most prestigious public university in the world…”</p>
<p>I thought Oxbridge was the most prestigious public university in the world.</p>
<p>rjk, Yeah, I guess that’s true if you count football and alumni boosterism.</p>
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<p>Which reminds me, I’ve always wondered if the University of Tokyo and Tokyo Tech are public or private. Does anyone know???</p>
<p>Edit, nvm, wikipedia comes through–they are both public.</p>
<p>I think outside of America, pretty much all universities are public. Other countries are much more socialist than America.</p>
<p>^^How about medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and nursing? Berkeley has none of those. Michigan is top ten in all. Oh yeah I just remembered that defacto school in SF, nevermind. ;-)</p>
<p>what about Minnesota?..well it IS the largest University in the country after all…(just figured this out after 3 years of living here hahaha).</p>
<p>Ranking based on SAT 75th percentile math + verbal</p>
<p>1460 University of California-Berkeley
1450 College of William and Mary
1440 University of Virginia-Main Campus
1430 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1430 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
1420 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
1400 University of California-Los Angeles
1400 University of Wisconsin-Madison
1390 University of Maryland-College Park
1390 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1380 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
1370 University of California-San Diego
1360 University of Florida
1360 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
1350 SUNY at Binghamton
1350 The University of Texas at Austin</p>
<p>Minnesota is definitely not a bad school, it just is slightly below the top ten in prestige.</p>
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It’s a well known fact and can easily be deduced from the 25th-75th SAT score spread.</p>
<p>Collegehelp, Berkeley’s CDS says 1470.</p>
<p>It’s settled, then, for me anyway. Since I like the elite atmosphere of these five universities, prefer a smaller-college environment (even if within a larger institution) and the topic is ‘most prestigious’ not ‘highest SAT scores’:</p>
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<li>Cambridge</li>
<li>Oxford
(gap)</li>
<li>London
(gap)</li>
<li>Wm & Mary</li>
<li>Virginia</li>
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<p>And I don’t even mean my gaps to imply that (for instance) Oxford is ‘better’ or ‘more prestigious’ than London, only that the Oxbridge environment is more paradisical by leagues. And I’m not even an Anglophile, this list to the contrary. </p>
<p>[Times</a> Higher Education-QS World University Rankings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings - Wikipedia”>Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>THES rankings are heavily biased towards UK universities.</p>
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<p>Somewhat–I’d push most of their UK schools down a few notches. </p>
<p>But *you *are heavily biased toward UCB ;)</p>
<p>THES ranked University College London (?) and Imperial College London (?) above Chicago (!), PRINCETON (?!?!), MIT (!!!), Cal Tech and Columbia.</p>
<p>"The ranking weights are:</p>
<p>Peer Review Score (40%)"</p>
<p>Those Europeans must think very highly of themselves, yes…</p>
<p>Look at how UCL, ICL, Penn, Hopkins, Chicago, & Duke have moved up in their rankings.<br>
And how MIT and Caltech have dropped!</p>
<p>Still more reasons to take this (and all rankings) with an entire box of salt.</p>