<p>I thought Veritas’ finding below was interesting.</p>
<p>From UC Davis:</p>
<p>“How have the top-rated campuses differed from UC Davis in the shares of their resources they allocated to the social sciences versus other fields? Their strategies vary, of course. Some have made less relative commitment to social sciences than Davis. MIT and Caltech have succeeded by insisting on good engineering, math, and physical sciences, with only a few pockets of excellence in social science. Closer to our strategy is Cornell, the main example of excellence with heavy commitment to biological sciences and agriculture. At the other end of the spectrum, social sciences and the humanities are the main reason why Princeton gets the top rating for overall undergraduate excellence. Six other Ivys have done something similar. This is the prevailing success story, even in public universities. Among the public campuses ranked above us, the tendency is for a larger commitment to social science than Davis has given (as we have seen for Berkeley, UCLA, and UC San Diego in Table 2).”</p>