<p>I do not understand. I read all these posts from ppl saying that Davis is NOT prestigious. Can you give me reasons why?? And if it has something to do with location that’s just a copout because there are lots of things to do in Davis. Also ppl think that Berkeley and LA is sooooooooooooooooo much better, how so???</p>
<p>I think you posted about this before. It IS. One of the top public schools, high in research funding, tens of thousands of applications each year.</p>
<p>Washington Monthly ranks UC Davis 8th in the United States. U.S. News & World Report 2009 America's Best Colleges ranked UC Davis the 44th best "national university" in the United States and the 10th best public university in the United States.UC Davis is also a Public Ivy.</p>
<p>For more...
Welcome</a> to UC Davis
University</a> of California, Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>Whoever said that is a weirdo. It's considered part of the "Public Ivy's" in the nation</p>
<p>it's not. get over it.</p>
<p>looool.</p>
<p>nioce.</p>
<p>My kind of dude. hahaha. Get over it!</p>
<p>UC Davis is a part of the UC system, considered by many to be the finest public education system in the world. The UC school's are research universities. Two years ago UC Davis surpassed UC Berkeley in research funding dollars. Get over it indeed.</p>
<p>As recent as 1996, UC Davis was ranked third amongst UC campuses in US News and World Report's annual ranking of universities. Since then, UC San Diego has taken over the enviable position of "third most prestigious UC." In fact, schools like UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara have ranked higher than UC Davis in recent years. Much of this can be attributed to the University of California's plan to make Davis a flagship campus, much like Berkeley and UCLA. This requires expanding the undergraduate student body, which has resulted in a less rigorous admissions policy.</p>
<p>UC</a> Davis - Davis Wiki</p>
<p>Lol will that ease your conscience?</p>
<p>um well it's not that great at sports, at least not yet, especially since it was in division II for the great majority of its history. just about all other state schools have well-known athletic programs, and sports can have a surprising influence on the popularity of a school. although popularity doesn't exactly translate to prestige, but it can have an influence on attracting students to apply there.</p>
<p>Its like barely in the top 50...</p>
<p>Usually prestige comes from top 20... and I'm talking OVERALL rankings... every school has there little shine with a certain program etc but overall speaking, its not PRESTIGIOUS but it is indeed well respected.</p>
<p>um it's number 42 im pretty sure, which makes it barely away from top 40. If prestige is top 20, you better throw out UCLA, UCB UCSD, Notre Dame, and a whole bunch of other amazing schools. </p>
<p>UC Davis is prestigious, but not in the way people imagine it.
For example, my father is an engineer, educated at MIT and Stanford, BS then MS. He has worked at the same company all his life around other engineers. He says as prestigious as stanford is for engineering, it's undergrad department is extremely weak, and they'd be more apt to hire someone from CMU or a school more well known for engineers.</p>
<p>Everyone worries about prestige, it doesn't matter. I'm going to Davis, with a well respected polsci department, with good recs, so when I want to go to grad school someone will hear "UC Davis, that's a pretty good school, let's see these recs, wow, very good," etc</p>
<p>just do well and look at what departments are exceptional at a school, like davis, #1 spanish undergrad program in the country</p>
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Its like barely in the top 50...
Usually prestige comes from top 20... and I'm talking OVERALL rankings... every school has there little shine with a certain program etc but overall speaking, its not PRESTIGIOUS but it is indeed well respected.
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Yeah, you're right, so Berkeley and UCLA aren't prestigious at all.
(For the record, Davis' rank is much lower than 50.)</p>
<p>Berkeley is #21 overall. UCLA his higher, Davis is just a tad above that. Not that employers care about such small differences anyway.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, Davis is very prestigious, as multiple posts in this thread have proved and linked.</p>
<p>Like I said... EVERY school has their shining program in the top 5 in the nation or w/e. UC Davis is a very well respected school but it is not considered VERY prestigious.</p>
<p>UCLA and UC Berkeley are VERRRRY well respected schools as well. However, Prestige should be recognized for those schools at the TOP. If the top 42 schools (BTW Davis dropped to 44.) are considered prestigious.... then the value of prestige itself goes WAYYY down. </p>
<p>If you were to speak on terms of public school ONLY then YESS UC Davis is prestigious since it is now tied with UCI and UCSB for the #11? # 12 spot was it in the country??</p>
<p>You're basically restating what we already said. I recommend you read the links as well.</p>
<p>uhh no im not haha</p>
<p>actually you are</p>
<p>the value of prestige is what you make it, and how you define prestige. if it's by name recognition, that's just kinda sad...</p>
<p>Wow...does Davis have the #1 Spanish program in the country?? because that is what i want to study</p>
<p>Rankings</p>
<p>In terms of Graduate Studies rankings, in 2006 U.S. News & World Report placed UC Davis First Nationally in Ecology and Evolution.
That's right, ahead of Cornell...</p>
<p>In 2008 U.S. News and World Report ranked UC Davis as the 10th best public university in the United States, and the 4th best of the UC schools (after UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSD).[24]</p>
<p>The Washington Monthly ranked UC Davis 8th in its 2007 National College Ranking.[25]</p>
<p>In 2008, UC Davis was ranked 42nd in the world and 34th in the Americas by an annual listing of the Top 500 World Universities[26] published by the Institute of Higher Education in Shanghai, China.</p>
<p>In 2007, UC Davis was ranked 96th in the world by 2007 The Times Higher Education Supplement Rankings.[27]</p>
<p>As of January, 2008, UC Davis was ranked 42nd among the top 4000 universities in the world by the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, which bases its rankings on a quantitative analysis of internet content specially related to the generation and communication of scientific knowledge.[28]</p>
<p>I tend to be good with numbers...
And the spanish department was in the number 1 spot within the past few years, if not 1 it's still top 15 easy</p>
<p>It dropped this year to 44 in the nation and its now tied with UCI and UCSB for the 4th spot.... in the UC system.</p>
<p>According to which ranking?</p>