Stanford, Berkeley get Top Marks - USNews

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<p>This thread may get deleted, because I’m copying info from a SJMN article.
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<p>Posted on Sat, Apr. 02, 2005 </p>

<p>Stanford, Berkeley get top marks</p>

<p>By Becky Bartindale
Mercury News</p>

<p>The longstanding rivalry between Stanford and Berkeley played out again Friday as U.S. News & World Report released some of its 2006 rankings of top U.S. graduate schools. The elite private university in Palo Alto and the flagship campus of the University of California both landed in the top tier in several categories on the magazine’s Web site.</p>

<p>The bottom line: Stanford outranked Berkeley in business, law, engineering and education while Berkeley gave Stanford a better run for the money in social sciences and humanities.</p>

<p>Overall, Stanford and UC campuses scored well in the influential rankings, which university officials covet but sometimes criticize for being inaccurate and misleading. Every year, the magazine ranks professional programs in business, law, medicine, engineering and education based on expert opinions and data the schools provide. Rankings of programs in the sciences, social sciences and humanities are based on the opinions of academic experts alone.</p>

<p>Publicly releasing partial results is part of a marketing effort to promote U.S. News’ April 11 issue, in which the rankings are published; its Web page, where customers can buy more information; and printed college and graduate school guides. The magazine arrives on newsstands Monday.</p>

<p>Drum roll, please. For 2006, U.S. News & World Report’s Bay Area winners include:</p>

<p>• Stanford ranked No. 3 for law, following Yale (No. 1) and Harvard. UC-Berkeley’s law school was ranked No. 11, tied with Cornell and Duke universities. UC’s Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco was No. 39, tied with Ohio State University.</p>

<p>• Stanford ranked No. 2 for business, a tie with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Harvard was No. 1.</p>

<p>• UC-San Francisco ranked No. 5 among medical schools in the research category. Stanford was No. 8. Harvard was No. 1.</p>

<p>In the primary-care category for medical schools, UC-San Francisco was No. 8. UCSF also received high rankings for its nursing (No. 2) and pharmacy programs (No. 1).</p>

<p>• Stanford was No. 2 in engineering after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. UC-Berkeley was No. 3.</p>

<p>• Stanford was No. 3 in education, after Harvard (No. 1) and UCLA. UC-Berkeley was No. 7.</p>

<p>• In social sciences and the humanities, Stanford was No. 1 in psychology, No. 2 in political science and No. 3 in economics – a tie with UC-Berkeley. Berkeley was No. 2 in psychology, a tie with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; No. 2 sociology; No. 1 in English, tying with Harvard and Yale; and No. 2 in history, a tie with Princeton.</p>

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<p>Funny how they talked about UCSF like it was part of UCB, it is a compleatly different school, not even associated with UCB.</p>

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<p>No UCSF used to be part of berkely. Actually they currently have a Joint medical program where you take classes at both schools.</p>

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<p>So is the magazine with the new rankings out on newstands already?</p>

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<p>It was supposed to hit the newstands on Mon., Apr. 11, but I haven’t actually seen it.</p>

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<p>They’re not talking about UCSF like it’s part of Berkeley. They mention it because they are talking about Bay Area schools that did well in the rankings. As you might have noticed, they also talked about the UC Hastings School of Law.</p>