How is USC compared to UC Berkeley?

Colleges & Universities University of Southern California
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<p>Miramontedad, I’ve read your posts and here is my response: </p>

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<li>It looks like the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physio/Med went to a former Berkeley undergraduate. <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Z._Fire[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Z._Fire&lt;/a&gt; </li>
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<p>Also, Joseph Erlanger BS 1895; William Giaque BS 1920; Lawrence Klein BA 1942; Willis Lamb BS 1934; Robert Laughlin BA 1972; Willard Libby BS 1931; Douglas North BA 1942; Thomas Schelling BA 1944; Hamilton Smith BS 1952</p>

<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_associated_with_University_of_California%2C_Berkeley[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_associated_with_University_of_California%2C_Berkeley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>So, there are actually TEN former Berkeley UNDERGRADUATES who won the Nobel Prize.</p>

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<li><a href=“http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0609.national.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0609.national.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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<p>It looks like Cal graduates have a bigger impact on society than you’d like to admit (look at the ranking methodology by following the link at the bottom of the page).</p>

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<li>Cal’s undergraduate education is that crappy huh? Having went to both Cal and Stanford, I can tell you FIRST-HAND that Cal provides a better undergraduate education than Stanford…in the biological sciences, at least. For example, the MCB dept. at Cal offers extensive upper-division laboratory courses in genetics, biochem, neuro, cell bio, and immuno (in addition to the core lower-div lab courses) that are team-taught by 3 professors and TAed by 3rd year PhD students in state-of-the-art teaching facilities and with small class sizes…while Stanford only offers the 2 core LOWER-division laboratory courses TAUGHT by graduate students, seniors, and the occasional med student. Another example is the availability of high-quality readers for bio courses at Cal, while Stanford bio courses rarely (if at all) have any readers available. I could list many other examples but I’m gettting lazy so I won’t. You’re just going to have to take my word for it: when you pay for Cal, you’re paying for an education above all things. When you pay for an “elite” private school, you’re paying for an affiliation above all things. Only naive tools who worship US News Rankings think otherwise, and delude themselves with the notion that they are getting a superior education.</li>
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