<p>I am transferring to Davis, I chose Davis over UCSD because it is more closer to home (otherwise I would have obv. chosen UCSD). I tend to be bothered by little things such as professors, programs and stuff. So I was looking at the UC Davis and UC San Diego faculty page. Almost EVERY professor from UCSD has their PhDs from: Brown, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Cal Tech, Oxford, Penn ; while on the other hand EVERY professor from Davis received them from common state universities like: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Purdue, some foreign universities and maybe Berkeley. Is it safe to say that UCSD faculty is more qualified than Davis faculty?? =/</p>
<p>Does it really matter? Going to college is about you, not the professors. Choosing UCSD over Davis just because their professors have degrees from different schools would be a very foolish idea.</p>
<p>Yes it matters!!! People are SO die- hard about the prestige of universities so everything gets taken into account. It is not a foolish idea, I can say it is foolish when people talking about universities rankings? The faculty is fundamentally what MAKES up the university. It obv. depends on whose hands you are learning from you know?</p>
<p>What I’m saying is that you cannot gauge the quality of the faculty from which universities they graduated from. And while faculty is important, it certainly is not the only factor. Don’t forget that you are going to a college full of people in a certain city. If you want to agonize over the fact that some of the professors got their degrees from a different university, go ahead. But I doubt that an employer will ever ask you what universities your college professors attended.</p>
<p>As a pre-med student, everything matters when you are applying to medical schools. Letters of recommendations are SO CRUCIAL when trying to gain admittance into schools. I am sure if the university YOU attended mattered, than so does the alma mater of the professors who GAVE you the letter of recommendation. Tell me, why else do students go to their well reputed PhDs in community colleges when trying to apply to universities? Because the committee who grants admissions look at DETAILS like this. They look at whose hands you learned from and their qualifications ( this fact becomes very important when applying to professional schools).</p>
<p>@sciencemanic002 People like you are what’s wrong with this world. Why would you ask a question, and then argue when you don’t get the answer you wanted? Stop being such a schmuck. If you do well and earn a high GPA, and build a strong resume, you will get into med-school. Schools won’t judge you based on what schools your professors went to, and if you believe they will, you are a complete fool. UCD is a great school, and the professors there are respected in their fields just by the very fact that they hold such prestigious positions. Continue to do well, stop being so inadequate, and you will be fine.</p>
<p>as someone who used to employ over 200 people i can promise you this:
only college students care this much about what school you go to.</p>
<p>At the undergraduate level it won’t matter. If a professor is a “big deal,” then he’ll probably teach very few classes that will be too full and you won’t get a chance to get to know him. If they aren’t a “big deal,” then it doesn’t matter what school they came from. BTW, nobody besides the posters on this board look down on schools you listed as “common.” In the real world, those are still well respected.</p>
<p>You’re making the whole ‘prestige’ thing a bigger issue than it really is. People really don’t care all that much about where. It’s what you do AFTER. People graduate from Ivy’s and go on to do nothing while others graduate from low tier state schools and make something of it. I know there are exceptions and this may not be the norm but for the most part this sounds really stupid choosing between two schools based on where the professors went.</p>
<p>Having a Ph.D from a prestigious university does not make one a good teacher. My previous professors in math and science had degrees from MIT, Berkeley, and CalTech. They were nice people, but horrible teachers. I’m sure they’re all insanely smart, but that doesn’t mean they can teach. I didn’t learn anything from their classes. </p>
<p>On the other hand, I’ve had professors with degrees from average state colleges who were GODLY teachers. They were absolutely incredible at explaining the material. So yeah, OP is making a big deal out of something that hardly matters. Hell, some of my classmates in community college are better at teaching the subject that some of my teachers. It doesn’t matter what school you go to.</p>
<p>LOL at this thread.</p>
<p>Why don’t you just go to UCSD?</p>