<p>"but I personally would always pick a "research" university over a teaching college"</p>
<p>so you would go to UCR over Williams or Pomona? I hope not. There are distinguished faculty at "teaching" colleges across the country. I can't really think of a reason research universities would have better faculty.</p>
<p>Research universities have more money, more resources. Maybe for a liberal arts major, i would pick a lac, but for research, i would pick a large university. Ucr is a great school, i would pick it in a heart beat, but i wouldnt want to graduate from there becuase their career department can't seem to place anyone and are lazy/understaffed</p>
<p>UCR over a top-ten LAC or regional school? I'm just not seeing it.</p>
<p>UCR is very underrated. It is actually a really good UC school, and in many ways as far as undergrad goes on a par with some of the top UCs.</p>
<p>^^^is this a joke?</p>
<p>I agree with tiyusufaly about UCR being underrated, and would add that it's over-made-fun-of. As to UCR and the "best" LACs, how many people do you think are considering one over the other? Yes, it shows your point, but their are some resources smallers schools can't supply. </p>
<p>Giants8307, can you not think of a single reason universities would have more distinguished faculty than LACs? How about size? They tend to have a lot more faculty members. At the very least, do you not think that, if each has the same number of "great" faculty, the universities would have more of them? What better faculty means is another issue, but to discount all universities completly doesn't make sense. Also, some people would choose UCR for various reason, be they monetary, location, curricular, or other. For instance, every year some students choose UCR for its biomedical program over universities considered much stronger.</p>
<p>virginia tech :)</p>
<p>"if each has the same number of "great" faculty, the universities would have more of them"</p>
<p>If each has the same number of great faculty, then no, the university would NOT have more of them. Why? Because they each have the same number. </p>
<p>Quantity doesn't really do much for me. There are some huge universities out there that do not have prestigious reputations and don't attract many top-level students (a good example is ASU). I'm a student a cal poly, a teaching-first university, and my professors last quarter went to the following schools: Yale, Michigan, UCSF, Cal, and UCSB. Seems like a pretty good pedigree to me.</p>
<p>I hated UCR, but moved out to riverside to live with a friend because my mom was in TX but wanted to live in so cal close to my home for 18 years (pasadena). I went to rcc, my gf went to ucr as and so did my roommates gf. I tried my best to convince her to go somewhere closer such as occidental, but i obviously failed. But o well i was stuck in riverside for who knows how long. The area seemed nasty, ghetto, but after a year, it really is a wonderful area with lots of hidden gems (neighborhood) but it still is very boring, pretty much you go partying or to the village or some shopping center.</p>
<p>But to the academics, i have to say after a year, my view has changed, this is a wonderful university, great honors program, great teachers and lots of research possibilities within the campus. Job prospects are good in the immediate so cal area, but otherwise good luck, but really, dont talk if you dont know what your talking about, learn about ucr before you bash something</p>
<p>Sorry, giants8207, I misspoke. I mean if they each had the same percentage. I hope you understood that, but if not, that is reasonable, I said something misleading. Sure, your profs have a fine pedigree. Congratulations. I'm not asking for quantity to "do it" for you.</p>
<p>I don't know DRab, but I always had the impression that the strongest among university of California system is Berkeley (of course), UCLA, UCSD and UCI, the weakest being UCSC and UCD....</p>
<p>Nope, the UCs are generally considered to be tiered by UCB/UCLA, then UCSD, then UCI/UCSB/UCD, then UCSC/UCR/UCM. Then you have various arguements in the subgroups about which school is better within than subgroup ;)</p>
<p>DRab- I didn't realize you meant percentage. If that's the case, the same persentage of teachers a student would have would be "great." From my own experience, profs at teaching universities are very good. That's all.</p>
<p>pasdena- I haven't bashed UCR yet. I said I would go to Williams or Pomona over it. That can be said for a great many universities. I haven't taken any classes there, so I won't say anything about academics, other than the school doesn't seem to be very selective.</p>
<p>rc251, I've never heard anyone group a one year old university with two schools that have been around for years. I would be surprised if people didn't put UCSC and UCR above UCM, if at the very least because it hasn't really had time to form it's own reputation. And, for the record, we all know that Cal is better than UCLA. :)</p>