rankinr

#48 >>> #53 (difference=5) when the difference favors UF

and

#38 = #58 (difference=20) when the difference favors UM

Sure, that makes sense.

I will say that if med schools are anything like law schools, they don't care at all where you go to undergrad. Whether you go to Barry University or UC Berkeley, you're just a number.

UFbound01

Notice how I said "look at the grad school rankings."

UF for Biology: 46
UM for Biology: 82

UF for Chemistry: 36
UM for Chemistry: 94

UF for medical school: 48
UM for medical school: 53 Here I would say that they are both roughly equal, neither being noticeably better than the other.

UF Comp Sci: 39
UM Comp Sci: Unranked

UF Engineering: 35
UM Engineering: 121

UF Law: 48
UM Law: 69

UF Clinical Psychology: 37
UM Clinical Psychology: 32 Again, roughly equal.

UF Econ: 48
UM Econ: Unranked

UF History: 48
UM History: 71

UF Physics: 36
UM Physics: 122

Need I go on?

UF is superior to Miami for research. Miami has a strong and small undergraduate class, which contributes to their good ranking, but UF also has many strong students, and although its ranking is hampered by budget cuts (which will likely improve in a few years), and large class sizes, it has much better research opportunities for undergraduate students for almost all of its programs (of course there are some exceptions, like earth sciences, for example).

UFbound01

University of Florida | Overall Rankings | Best College | US News

University of Miami | Overall Rankings | Best College | US News

You can check it out for yourself. Truthfully, the overall ranking doesn't mean all that much, as neither of these schools have the same name brand recognition as schools like Berkeley, Cornell, Harvard, etc., but the grad school rankings are a pretty good indicator of how strong the graduate programs are, and how strong the research is at each university.

Go Gators!

Oh and by the way, Miami is a great school, but I just feel that they are still about equal, and that Miami is in no way much better than UF.

rankinr

I totally agree that they're pretty much equal. I assumed that you were referring to medical research rankings, which seems like it would be the only relevant research ranking to this thread.

UFbound01

Oh okay, I see.

Again, don't get me wrong, they're both fantastic schools, and all I'm trying to say is that the choice of one over the other comes down to personal preference.

If you're doing engineering, go with UF. If you're doing marine sciences/meterology, go with UM. If you're doing medicine, go with the school you like more.