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Does California have the best higher education system in the union?

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Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: AreaCode707
[edit] Oh, and California is necessarily going to have a LONGER list of top notch schools than any other state simply because CA has the population and space to support it. Take a slice of the northeast the same size as CA and total up the number of top schools; it would be a more fair comparison.
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Get your crazy logic out of the Californians' dick waving thread!
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Hey now, I'm from California but I don't have a dick to wave! 😛
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I was going to say something crude and sexual in nature, but I have refrained.
 
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Originally posted by: her209
Probably the 5 most nationally recognized schools from CA (in no particular order):
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Cal Tech
UCLA
USC

But you also have lesser known schools like (in no particular order):
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly SLO
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Three top 10 engineering schools bolded.

Berkeley and USC have top 10 business programs.

UCSF and StanFUrd are top 10 med schools. UCLA is just shy of top 10.

Stanford and Berkeley have top 10 law programs.

UCLA, Berkeley, and Stanford have top 10 teaching programs.

The only region that comes close is MA.
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Behind MIT right?

 
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Originally posted by: her209
Probably the 5 most nationally recognized schools from CA (in no particular order):
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Cal Tech
UCLA
USC

But you also have lesser known schools like (in no particular order):
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly SLO
Click to expand...

Three top 10 engineering schools bolded.

Berkeley and USC have top 10 business programs.

UCSF and StanFUrd are top 10 med schools. UCLA is just shy of top 10.

Stanford and Berkeley have top 10 law programs.

UCLA, Berkeley, and Stanford have top 10 teaching programs.

The only region that comes close is MA.
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Behind MIT right?
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But for MA, after MIT... there's a looooong drop till you hit Harvard Engineering.
 
Originally posted by: her209
Probably the 5 most nationally recognized schools from CA (in no particular order):
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Cal Tech
UCLA
USC

But you also have lesser known schools like (in no particular order):
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly SLO
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Cal Poly Pomona?! HAHA seriously? thats a joke school
 
California is also like 30 times bigger than MA which is the closest thing too it. Its really unfair to compare every cali school to every mass school because simple geography means that california is going to have a higher number of schools and thus a higher number of top flight schools. It much more fair to compare Cali to New England, in which case New England wins.
 
Originally posted by: her209
Probably the 5 most nationally recognized schools from CA (in no particular order):
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Cal Tech
UCLA
USC

But you also have lesser known schools like (in no particular order):
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly SLO
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Where's UC San Francisco for Medical???
 
Originally posted by: Cruisin1
Originally posted by: her209
Probably the 5 most nationally recognized schools from CA (in no particular order):
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Cal Tech
UCLA
USC

But you also have lesser known schools like (in no particular order):
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly SLO
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Cal Poly Pomona?! HAHA seriously? thats a joke school
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I will say this about Cal Poly SLO. BEAUTIFUL girls and lots of them.

 
Public university system? Cali wins, NY probably second.

Private? Northeast. Among others, NY has Cornell, Alfred University (#1 in the world in ceramic engineering, one of only 3 schools with glass science), Ithaca, RIT, RPI, Syracuse, Clarkson,...
 
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Originally posted by: her209
Probably the 5 most nationally recognized schools from CA (in no particular order):
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Cal Tech
UCLA
USC

But you also have lesser known schools like (in no particular order):
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly SLO
Click to expand...

Three top 10 engineering schools bolded.

Berkeley and USC have top 10 business programs.

UCSF and StanFUrd are top 10 med schools. UCLA is just shy of top 10.

Stanford and Berkeley have top 10 law programs.

UCLA, Berkeley, and Stanford have top 10 teaching programs.

The only region that comes close is MA.
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Why do you know all of that? 😕
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Why? Because I'm Asian and our parents nailed it into our heads to get into the top programs. So some of my best friends have gone into business, medical, and engineering... some law too. As a result we each kinda know where the best schools are. That and I know my own school and it's rival pretty well. Yes it's sad. It's not like I can tell you the whole top 10 though... although I could probably start building the list somewhat for each category.
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Stanford's business program is better than Cal or USC
-AE
 
If you're willing to expand to a more geographically accurate comparison, New England takes it easily, and even if you want to just go state to state, it's still Massachusetts.

Nice try, CA. 😛
 
If you are looking at both private and public, I would give the edge to California compared to Massachusetts.

If you are looking at Public universities, I would say California over Massachusetts by a long-shot and I would have to throw in my home state of Texas into the mix.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Public university system? Cali wins, NY probably second.

Private? Northeast. Among others, NY has Cornell, Alfred University (#1 in the world in ceramic engineering, one of only 3 schools with glass science), Ithaca, RIT, RPI, Syracuse, Clarkson,...
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Ok, but just look at overall. Cornell is a top 10 school. UCLA trumps all the others. Hell I'd go to Cal Poly before the rest, but that's just because I'm from CA maybe.

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Originally posted by: her209
Probably the 5 most nationally recognized schools from CA (in no particular order):
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Cal Tech
UCLA
USC

But you also have lesser known schools like (in no particular order):
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly SLO
Click to expand...

Three top 10 engineering schools bolded.

Berkeley and USC have top 10 business programs.

UCSF and StanFUrd are top 10 med schools. UCLA is just shy of top 10.

Stanford and Berkeley have top 10 law programs.

UCLA, Berkeley, and Stanford have top 10 teaching programs.

The only region that comes close is MA.
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Behind MIT right?
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Depends. You mean overall? Yes. I've seen the rankings for 4 straight years and there's years where it's

1) MIT
2) Stanfurd & Berkeley (TIE)

or

1) MIT Stanfurd Berkeley (3 way tie)

1) MIT
2) Berkeley
3) Stanford (or was it flipped around I don't remember)

I'd say the top 3 are pretty close.

I'm sure you could find departments where MIT falls behind the two. I'm guessing Civil and probably Nuclear.

As for the comment about Cal Poly, it's actually an insane school. Sure you can't get a PhD there but it IS a top school where you can get up to a Masters. BTW, San Jose State in that respect isn't terrible either because it IS in the middle of Silicon Valley, although I'm pretty sure it's only solid in EE/CE.

I think OVERALL in CA you can find THE TOP programs to get into where you'd be in the top 5 or 10. I think with the MA schools you can find top programs too but they're more specialized.

Take for example UCLA. That school isn't top 5 caliber but it's top 10 - 15 for a LOT of categories. Take business school, law school, med school. It's all great, and I doubt you'd find a lot of schools that can compete on the same level, and being the SECOND LEVEL state school and yet being able to compete with the top state schools/private schools in other states is remarkable. I believe the entire UC system is amazing on it's own. Although I believe once you drop below SD those schools aren't really worth picking esp if you're out of state even though they rank quite well against other state school.s

Edit: I apologize for the bias. Once Northwestern gives me an admission to their graduate program I'll provide Fox News analysis for why IL is the better state arite?
 
The UC system is pretty amazing all around. Our undergrads can get into pretty much whatever grad program they want to, if they have the grades and the research. Which actually scares me, after grading finals this last quarter :-D
 
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