<p>lovetocamp: If you read carefully, the Business Week ranking only deals with undergraduate schools. UCLA doesn't have an undergraduate business program. In the second link you provided, UCLA is #10. Its business school is called The Anderson School.</p>
<p>Aww....did I hurt your feelings?? No I won't admit anything because each school is different and offers programs the other does NOT EVEN OFFER.</p>
<p>Well since you are so obsessed with the quantitative side here's some for your consumption....yummmy:</p>
<p>Accounting:</p>
<p>Public Accounting Report-5th, Graduate; 4th, Undergraduate</p>
<p>FYI: I'm in Accounting so don't even tell me this ranking is BS.....this is the most respected ranking for accounting programs.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/dept/accounting/mpa/rankings-mpa.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/dept/accounting/mpa/rankings-mpa.asp</a>
<a href="http://bus.utk.edu/acct/PAC%20accounting%20rankings%202005.doc%5B/url%5D">http://bus.utk.edu/acct/PAC%20accounting%20rankings%202005.doc</a></p>
<p>You keep proving my point that UCLA trumps USC, even in terms of students' maturity. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Blah blah blah......</p>
<p>You proved that USC's Accounting program is well-respected. Congratulations. Sorry, but that still doesn't prove USC is better than UCLA.</p>
<p>Rankings are pointless anyway. They've always ranked USC lower because of basically arbitrary criteria, so it's not a great measure of school quality at all.</p>
<p>Who ever actually typed "USC is better than UCLA" ?? You're missing the whole point of this thread. USC offers excellent professional programs while UCLA's strength is in the traditional areas in the Arts and Sciences.</p>
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and your apparent desperation to belittle another school, a school that despite rankings provides an excellent upper tier education and is qualitatively not so far off from your beloved schools, shows your maturity...</p>
<p>Fandango is obviously fixated on the rankings. If you want him to concede a bit here and there, feed him rankings.</p>
<p>baboking: Remember the old saying..."Never wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it."</p>
<p>Fandango: Scoreboard baby. USC passed UCLA in SAT's years ago, and UCB last year. It's only a matter of a short time before the same is true for the rankings.</p>
<p>I never once said USC's a bad school. I'm not a UCLA student who hates USC without any reason; in fact, I respect USC and USC graduates. I'm simply saying that academically-speaking, UCLA is a better school.</p>
<p>This thread is getting inane. Do moderators exist on CC?</p>
<p>Unfortunately no. CC has its good moments but it also has what you see here on this thread..a bunch of juvenile, unconstructive type of posts.</p>
<p>All three of the schools are good academically. Each school has its strengths and weaknesses. No school is better than the other because really, there's no impartial way to judge what is "better". Hypothetical example: I think Nicole Kidman is "better" than Salma Hayek; my friend disagrees. Who's right? It's impossible to say, because there's no definitive way to judge. "Better" is in the eye of the beholder. Someone may view USC's abilities to bestow more personal attention to its students as a valid reason to deem it better, and someone else may see Berkeley's international prestige as a measurement of "better".</p>
<p>College rankings such as U.S. News provide only a rough outline of where schools lie. They are neither perfect nor set in stone concerning where colleges are academically (consider how often the rankings change). Just because UCLA is 5 spots above USC on U.S. News rankings does not mean that UCLA is academically superior, just as the fact that UCB's 5 spots above UCLA does not mean that Berkeley is better than UCLA.</p>
<p>I heard one UCLA person say that USC was better than UCLA in engineering.</p>
<p>As a USC engineering student, that's good enough for me</p>
<p>I guess we can conclude the obvious....</p>
<p>In terms of discussion threads, fandango realizes the quality of USC threads and posts, and therefore she spends her time here reading and posting in the USC threads, even though she is a UCLA student.</p>
<p>In terms of professors, lectures, classroom discussion, and overall learning, fandango will likewise probably spend her time at USC. </p>
<p>I have always been amazed at how secure and happy USC studnets are. They applied, were accepted at USC, and are happy to spend their time here, in USC threads. The look forward, with optimism, at the upcoming Fall Semester at USC. They ask good questions, provide useful information, etc. Yet, UCLA students, over the past few months, have chosen to view USC threads, and respond to USC threads. I don't know if they are envious. I don't know if, by putting down USC, they somehow think that they can feel better about attending UCLA. Oh well. Technically, they are allowed to view any threads, and participate in threads for any schools. But why would you want to spend your time in the threads of a school that you will not be attending.</p>
<p>I hope I'm not offending when I say this. But the average student at USC is comparable to a UC Irvine student. When I went to USC and talked to students, many said that USC was the best school that they got into.</p>
<p>USC definitely has its smart kids, that's why there's presidential and trustee scholars. I almost became a trojan.</p>
<p>USC's average SAT score is higher mainly because 1) it's smaller than a UC, hence, averages tend to be higher and 2) the UCs base SAT scores on one sitting, whereas USC and probably all privates use composite scores.</p>
<p>USC is a great school, but I don't think it's known as ACADEMICALLY strong of a school when compared to UCLA and UCB nationally. </p>
<p>We all want to feel good about our own schools, so I think comparision are futile. You picked the school that you will be at for the next 4 years. Enjoy it!</p>
<p>Since someone mentioned this, I like the USC forum because I felt wooed by the scholars orientations! :)</p>
<p>"When I went to USC and talked to students, many said USC was they best school that they got into"</p>
<p>Don't most people go to the best school they got into?</p>
<p>I didn't......</p>
<p>I'm not sure about that (USC~UC Irvine). I know a lot of people from my HS who got into UC irvine but were rejected from USC, more than a statistically insignificant amount.</p>