<p>Which one has a better International Relations/International Studies/etc. program? And which one would I have a better shot at? Consider that I am female, Asian, ranked #2 in my class with about a 4.1 GPA, involved in many extracurriculars, and from California. If you need any more info about me, I'd be happy to provide that. But mostly, I'd love to know which one has a better IR/IS program. I'm looking for a safety/low match, by the way. Any reply would be appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>Umm, well UF’s IR/IS program is a certificate not a degree if I recall. In regards to UCD, realize it is still primarily a AG school but always had a strong social science education due to it’s proximity to Sac. There are many tracks to take at UCD as they encourage a foreign internship unless would like to study more AG/Environmental Science stuff. The IR program is still primarily upper division so you would be best served to attend a CCC to complete and do well in all your lower division requirements prior to transfer. If you would like more information on requirements or different tracks feel free to post, hope that helps.</p>
<p>Go for UF. UF is fun and highly respected. It has beautiful campus environment and the students look great, in general. UCD is a dump and boring! it’s the worse UC after Merced, in my personal opinion.</p>
<p>^^^ LOL…</p>
<p>Isn’t it really hard to get into UF from out of state?</p>
<p>Aren’t there any other UCs with a good IR program? What about some other schools? What about American U?</p>
<p>Pax…will your parents pay for whatever school you go to?</p>
<p>RML, Davis is far from a dump and boring. I have a suspicion you’ve never set foot on the Davis campus.</p>
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Stop right there. Did you just call one of America’s top party schools highly respected? You really use positive terms far too loosely. -.-</p>
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Davis is clearly better than Riverside and Santa Cruz. There really is no contest.</p>
<p>@kmazza I’ve actually gotten most, if not all, of my General Education classes done through the community college system. My high school is located inside of one, that’s why. I have heard that UCD does focus more on engineering and sciences, but I looked on their website and they actually offer International Relations as a major. As for UF, I think I’d like the atmosphere, and I thought I saw International Studies as a major on their website as well.</p>
<p>@RML I definitely didn’t see Davis as anywhere near the level of Merced and Riverside. I honestly thought it was higher up there but definitely not to the status of Berkeley and LA.</p>
<p>@momtocollegekids I’m not exactly sure how hard it is to get into UF if you don’t live in Florida. There are a handful of students outside of the state that do make it. I’m assuming they’re very qualified, and I’d like to think that I am too. I have looked into other schools with IR programs. My list of schools stands at CSULB, Georgetown, UCB, UCLA, Columbia, Harvard, JH, Brown, and Stanford. I was just looking for another safety school. As for my parents paying for it, I’m pretty sure they’d be willing to pay more for my education.</p>
<p>@UCBChemEGrad How beautiful is the Davis campus, in your opinion?</p>
<p>@sentimentGX4 You don’t think UF is a respectable school?</p>
<p>davis is more or less a college town in most respects. flat, very large, a lot of bike trails, medium amount of trees, inland californian weather (if you can even extrapolate anything from that), some what modern architecture.</p>
<p>rml must love to ■■■■■ =/</p>
<p>Well Davis has really grown over the past decade and is a well kept modern school and never thought a dump. It’s really boomed due to research dollars going into biological and environmental sciences but besides an AG school was the main social/political science UC due to its holdings and proximity to the capital. It’s highly regarded in those aspects and has rapidly become a very desirable UC to go to on a national scale. The UC of the south that has IR is UCSD but I don’t know anything about it even though intuitively UCD makes more sense for having a well supported strong program. Other options in Nor Cal for IR/IS would obviously be Sac State but Chico State also has an excellent and flexible International Relations program that you may find more enjoyable over UCD. Chico State is still a very good and actually nationally highly competitive state school with great programs plus is nearly just as hot as Davis but a bit more fun, all depending on who you are hanging with granted.</p>
<p>UCB,</p>
<p>I have. In fact, my aunt lives their now and I go visit her almost every year. It’s a boring place and nothing like the other parts of California, and UCD is nothing like the other UC campuses. But then again, it’s just my personal opinion. I also have been to UF. It’s a great place to study and live in, miles and miles better than UCD, in my opinion. If the comparison were made between UF and UCSB or UCSD, UCLA and most especially, UCB, I’d have a totally different opinion on that. But Davis was a bland place… and boring. I don’t know. That’s what I feel about that place.</p>
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I wasn’t talking about academics; I was talking about the place and venue for the next four years of your life. You better visit the place before you decide to even apply there. It may be is a nice place for some people, but obviously not for everyone or most poeple. It’s academics, however, is good. Maybe even superior to some UCs. If youc an do it, visit all UC cmapuses. It will surely give you a better idea where you would apply and enroll when accepted.</p>
<p>Academic wise, UF > UCD. people who think otherwise are probably not aware of UF’s academic strength. UCD is overrated on CC.</p>
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Davis is clearly the least urban of the UC campuses (except for Merced). The City of Davis is relatively small (~60,000), remarkably flat, and surrounded by farmland in all directions. </p>
<p>If you want urban excitement, then Davis would not be an ideal choice; it would definitely be a “boring” place for some people. On the other hand, Davis is one of the friendliest, safest, and cleanest of the UC college towns, so it seems unfair to characterize it as a “dump”.</p>
<p>@rml so other than visiting the colleges you have no other significant experience in both the colleges? unless you actually took higher division equivalent classes in both those schools, it would be hard to convince people in terms of academics at least.</p>
<p>IMO, Davis is not nearly as boring as UCSD.</p>
<p>^^^^^ I tend to agree and found such a statement strange. True, Davis is nothing exciting, but have you seen all the cuties attending there recently?!?! I’d pick UCD over UCB just because the quality of girls is so much better (soz UCBCHemDude) and many of UCD’s academic programs are fantastic.</p>
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RML, I think you need to revisit the USNWR rankings, and those of the newly published NRC. They appear to be as ignorant as we who post here. :)</p>
<p>In the USNWR undergraduate rankings:</p>
<p>UC Davis #39
Florida: #53</p>
<p>NRC 2010 Ph.D. program Rankings, with ranking position arrived at by counting the # of times one of the 59 Ph.D. subFields was ranked in the top 3 (they give ranges now)across all 59 disciplines, </p>
<p>UC Davis: #22
Florida: #29</p>
<p>RML, where exactly are you getting that Florida is higher ranked academically than UC Davis?</p>
<p>RML does seem to be contradicting himself on the academic issue based more upon his feelings of each campuses/surrounding environment aesthetics. You Senior CC’ers certainly catch on to these things and like to call each other out huh haha</p>
<p>Wow, there’s a lot of UC Davis ■■■■■■ here. LOL
Okay; go ahead and pimp that school. As if the USNews ranking is absolute…</p>
<p>OP, I haven’t attended either school that’s why my comment was mostly about the school environments. I seriously think that UF has more resources than UCD has, and UF is a agreat university environment with excellent facilities and loads of really friendly, smart and good looking people. The social scene there is better, I mean, much better than at UCD… UF students and alumni are also very proud of their school and the sports scence there is fantastic. UF is one of the most prestigious, if not the most prestigious, school in Florida. UCD is not even a top 8 school for undergrad in California, in my opinion. Maybe I’m ignorant about UCD. I don’t know. But the vibe I got there wasn’t good. I won’t study there if I have offers from schools like UF. My words aren’t absolute either. So, if you can visit both campuses, please do. They’re are different from each other and there’s a chance that you might like one and hate the other.</p>
<p>^^^
i don’t understand. similarly, i could say that you are pimping out uf for its social scene.</p>
<p>what significance is there that a school is more prestigious in the state? there are more prestigious universities in california for ucd to compete with than prestigious universities in florida that uf has to compete with.</p>
<p>but, i’ll agree with this much. if a student is interested in the social/party scene, and his only options were uf or ucd, it would most likely be uf of the two.</p>