New President Announced

rleaman
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 01:06:37 +0000

Berkeley salaries are public record since everyone works there is a state employee. I haven’t checked recently but a few years ago they were not even the top paying UC school. In fact at that time both UCLA and UC Davis paid more. If you check out the salaries of some of their stars especially the older ones, they are paid less sometimes considerably less than the folks at other state flagship universities. One of their elderly law professors said a few years ago he was happy to be at Boalt Hall at the end of his career even though he was earning half of what his peers at other institutions were paid. Rich academic tradition there. In 1969 the American Council on Education rated Berkeley, Harvard and Stanford the top three highest quality PhD programs as a whole. I do think Berkeley to some extent lives a little bit off its reputation of former years and there is a “hallo effect” on many of its PhD programs. It does however offer probably the greatest breadth of high quality PhD programs of any college anywhere. At last count it offered 33 languages. I will reiterate my former point that its professional schools do tarnish it a little a bit even if @JBStillFlying disagrees. Compare it to Yale which is not nearly as strong in as many areas but has the best Law School and a top 5 medical school. These go a long way toward enhancing academic prestige especially among certain members of the educated classes. If UChicago had a top three law school to go with its top five business school, it would be perceived a little more highly. And just for the record I am a graduate of the Law School.