Your opinion on UC Berkeley

[IBclass06]

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@RML

IBclass06, the issue about Berkeley’s undergrad not being as strong as it’s postgrad is redundant to the point that it’s predictable and boring… It’s been said over and over again in several threads probably since the birth of this message board. In other words, that’s not a hidden secret at Berkeley but despite that, top students go there because it’s a very prestigious school.

Hey, don’t shoot the messenger. I was just playing devil’s advocate. You’d see in my other posts that I’m a big supporter of public universities.</p>

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@DunninLA

Berkeley is the #1 ranked Ph.D. university overall, ahead of, in order, Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Cornell, etc… These ranking come from the NRC, and are a combination of program rankings across 41 disciplines.

If you want to get technical about it, Berkeley does not actually come out #1 in the NRC rankings. MIT is #1 in terms of non-zero ranked fields, and Stanford is #1 in terms of all 41 ranked fields (Berkeley is #2 in both categories). It’s splitting hairs, but since posters want to get so nitpicky about everything…</p>

<p>Of course, we’ll see how this changes when/if the updated rankings come out.</p>