<p>I can speak a little for UCR (since I live in Riverside and have taken classes there). Faculty is topnotch. Sciences are very strong. Good PoliSci Department. Soon to open a Med school. Business school is supposedly very good as well.</p>
<p>However, many members of the faculty and staff that I know personally have warned me to go to a different UC. Many of the students are careless and unmotivated (sciences excluded). I’ve had bad impressions of them in all the classes I’ve taken (with a few individual exceptions).</p>