The Ivy Plus Society

sentimentGX4
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:25:41 +0000

RML:

anyway, i think that’s for undergrad. but for professional education, which I think draws school prestige and brand power largely, Michigan and UVa, being national and international names, are superior to UCLA’s. UCLA’s are still “regional” names.

Michigan Law, Med and Business, and UVa Law and UVa Business are tier 1 schools. UCLA’s, except for its med school, aren’t.

Umm… no. Cut your Berkeley bias against UCLA out.

UVa business: Rank 13
UCLA business: Rank 15
Tier 1? Virginia has a well known undergrad business school.

UVa law: Rank 10
UCLA law: Rank 15

UVa med: Rank 25
UCLA med: Rank 11

UVa engineering: 39
UCLA engineering: 14

UCLA is clearly the superior (and better rounded) grad school. While UCLA is roughly the same rank for practically every area, Virginia really bombs certain areas.

UVa THEQS/USNWR: 128
UCLA THEQS/USNWR: 32

UVa ARWU: 96
UCLA ARWU: 13

UCLA is also the superior international university. Virginia isn’t an international university at all!