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For the 75892432th year in a row, UC Berkeley was named the number-one university when it comes to undergraduate education at a public university. At least according to U.S. News & World Report's 2010 "America's Best Colleges" list, it is. Overall, Cal came in sixth 21st, placing well below the more elite and classier schools like Harvard, Princton, Yale, MIT, and Stanford. This year, a total of six University of California campuses ranked in the top 50 schools -- Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, Davis, Santa Barbara, and Irvine. (Put down the pipe and pick up a book, banana slugs.) Read more about the list here.
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Are we looking at the same list? I see Cal at #21 overall not #6. CalTech is at #4 if that's what you saw mistakenly.
you're right. (also, i went to uscs, so that's a big part of the problem, obviously.)
uscs?
university santa cruz skool?
i'm thinking it's wine-lunch-weds at sfist!
cheers!
oh man, i really am out of it today. i meant ucsc. of course. bah.
now where did i put my glass?
Clearly, this means the UC regents deserve their $400,000 salaries.
just to make this clear for everyone, the regents don't receive salaries.
Don't expect UC to stay on top of these lists. The Governator has a disconnect between education and the economy, and other states are poised to poach talent and take advantage of his foolishness.
See: The Economist and The Statesman on this. CA higher education is going down and will take the economy down with it for decades to come.
Good to see that both my undergrad and grad school alma maters are still top tier, like always, as usual. In fact, they never seem to move at all. What's the point of this list again?
CAL ranked number 1 ? well .....13 in football is not too bad
try again : http://www.whatwilltheylearn.com/
As much as I distrust the US News ranking list, their metrics are at least politically neutral.
The organization that you're linking to (ACTA) is a right-wing group that's hell-bent on destroying "liberal academia." They're attached at the hip to folk like the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. If higher education in the United States followed their suggestions than we'd be churning out zombie-autonomations whose only skills in life were the ability to cite page-length passages of Atlas Shrugged in between convoluted rants on how immigrants and the Federal Reserve work together to destroy America.
They basically want to turn the entire country into the comments section of SFgate.
Who are they kidding? It was always a second-rate school!
Right. Because Harvard, Princton, Yale, MIT, and Stanford are all of such stature as to have elements named after them.
Oh wait.