Undergraduate Teaching? UC Berkeley tied for 6th?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>I am just curious whether UC Berkeley students agree that UC Berkeley has the 6th best undergraduate teaching in the nation? I was under the impression from snooping around the UC Berkeley forum for a while that most people say that they dont have the best teachers. This year rankings now confuse the hell out of me. </p>

<p>Best</a> Colleges - Education - US News</p>

<p>discuss please. Does Berkeley really have great undergraduate professors as the rankings say? or is this another case were the rankings are crap?</p>

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<p>[Methodology:</a> Best Undergraduate Teaching - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2010/08/17/methodology-best-undergraduate-teaching.html]Methodology:”>http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2010/08/17/methodology-best-undergraduate-teaching.html)</p>

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<p>Seems like a dumb way to ranking teaching - why not ask students themselves directly? Instead of asking people who aren’t exactly in the classrooms themselves.</p>

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<p>Of course, because we’re not getting all A’s like other private schools, asking students directly will technically hurt us. Even though everybody knows grade inflation is a bad thing, I think we “only” get overall 22nd place because we have too many unhappy people in the campus.</p>

<p>Shame.</p>

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<p>^ Because getting Bs and Cs makes us Berkeley students HARDCORE amirite???
YEAAA We’re prepared to deal with the HARD KNOCK LIFE when we graduate because we get lower grades!!!</p>

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<p>it is indeed the hard knock life, but don’t you think it’s definitely the right way? what the heck is the point when so many people get A’s?</p>