<p>Well I’m biased as I’m at Berkeley but I will say that the two are fairly different. If you want to go to a RESEARCH university and have access to ground breaking research in a variety of different fields go to Berkeley. If you don’t really care about cutting edge research you might as well go to Penn. Berkeley blows Penn out of the water in all the physical and biological sciences (and actually almost everything at the research level).</p>
<p>If you’re into rankings look at this [QS</a> Top Universities: University rankings in Life Sciences and Biomedicine](<a href=“http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2008/subject_rankings/life_sciences_biomedicine/]QS”>http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2008/subject_rankings/life_sciences_biomedicine/)</p>
<p>Life Sciences and Biomed
1 HARVARD University United States 100.0
2 University of CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom 87.1
3 JOHNS HOPKINS University United States 84.7
4 University of California, BERKELEY United States 83.7
5 University of OXFORD United Kingdom 81.4
6 STANFORD University United States 80.3
7 YALE University United States 76.4
8 MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (M… United States 75.7
9 University of CALIFORNIA, San Diego United States 69.4
10 MCGILL University Canada 68.0
11= IMPERIAL College London United Kingdom 65.4
11= University of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (U… United States 65.4
13 University of TORONTO Canada 64.1
14 University of BRITISH COLUMBIA Canada 61.8
15 University of TOKYO Japan 60.5
16 CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Calt… United States 59.5
17 National University of SINGAPORE(NUS) Singapore 58.7
18 CORNELL University United States 57.6
19 PEKING University China 56.9
20 COLUMBIA University United States 56.3</p>
<p>Natural Sciences [QS</a> Top Universities: University rankings in the Natural Sciences](<a href=“http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2008/subject_rankings/natural_sciences/]QS”>http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2008/subject_rankings/natural_sciences/)
1 MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (M… United States 100.0
2 University of California, BERKELEY United States 99.5
3 University of CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom 98.3
4 HARVARD University United States 96.1
5 University of OXFORD United Kingdom 92.3
6 PRINCETON University United States 91.1
7 CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Calt… United States 90.7
8 STANFORD University United States 88.0
9 University of TORONTO Canada 79.2
10 University of TOKYO Japan 77.2
11 CORNELL University United States 76.8
12 University of CHICAGO United States 75.2
13 KYOTO University Japan 74.4
14 IMPERIAL College London United Kingdom 74.3
15 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of T… Switzerland 73.7
16 PEKING University China 73.0
17 YALE University United States 72.1
18 University of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (U… United States 72.0
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