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<li>Columbia has limited resources and facilities thus couldn’t accept more students, or it would dilute its core education to a “state U level” where the ratio of faculty-to-student is higher.</li>
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<p>For Columbia to become as big as Berkeley, it would need to add more lecture halls, laboratories, classrooms, offices, and employ more people, perhaps triple its current size. Columbia couldn’t afford to do that without “diluting” its statistics. </p>
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<li>WALL STREET. That’s a no-brainer. Columbia grads have easier access to Wall Street. They send loads of grads there every year, thus their network in the financial center is relatively larger than Berkeley’s. But how easy (and successful) Columbia is in gaining access to Wall Street is perhaps the same level of access Berkeley has to Silicon Valley. I’m not saying it is nearly impossible for Columbia grads to gain employment in SV. They just have lesser access compared to Berkeley grads as they are outnumbered, and the field isn’t the school’s forte.
In the IT, tech and engineering world, Berkeley, perhaps, is bested by only two, three or four schools, and Columbia is obviously not one of them. </li>
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