<p>I read through UCSB’s 2025 plan, and while they want to increase the graduate population from 13% of the total student body to 17% of the student body, there’s no specific mention of new professional schools. It was noted that professional schools could be considered, but only if they could be top ranking schools should they be created.</p>
<p>As far as endowment, again, I think the lack of professionals schools (not to mention the fact that Davis has 10,000 more students) can explain the smaller endowment. I think it would be more interesting to see endowment broken down by departments rather than overall for the school. </p>
<p>And as for reputation, almost all the questionable comments about reputation I read about on CC are second hand. Like “I heard that UCSB has the highest STD rate” or “I hear there’s nothing to do in Davis”, but when you actually read these forums, you find that actual students from these forums have much different comments. For example, although I hear comments that a lot of UCSB students drop out due to partying, it’s graduation rates are about the same as the other mid-tier UC schools:</p>
<p>[College</a> graduation rates for every California school - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee](<a href=“http://www.sacbee.com/2009/07/26/2057532/college-graduation-rates-for-every.html]College”>http://www.sacbee.com/2009/07/26/2057532/college-graduation-rates-for-every.html)</p>