<p>I know that rankings don’t matter but oh well it’s good to hear that UCSD stands really high among alot of universities.</p>
<p>Today I went to the official UCSD website and it says </p>
<p>U.S. News and World Report ranks UCSD as 7th best public university in the nation, and 32nd among the nations top 50 universities.</p>
<p>wasn’t it 38th? and 8th among the public universities?</p>
<p>well just kinda curious! ^^</p>
<p>it used to be 32nd and now its 38th according to the news and world report. </p>
<p>so the school actually went down a few slots.</p>
<p>the school will say anything to get people to apply/come here. such as continually touting its “hottest school for science” title, even though that was YEARS ago.</p>
<p>Like UCLA and Berkeley, most of UCSD’s prestige stems from research and grad programs. As a result UCSD does very well in international rankings
[Academic</a> Ranking of World Universities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Universities]Academic”>Academic Ranking of World Universities - Wikipedia)
[Top</a> 100 Global Universities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Global_Universities]Top”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Global_Universities)
[QS</a> Top Universities: Top 400 universities in the THE - QS World University Rankings 2007](<a href=“http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2007/overall_rankings/top_400_universities/]QS”>http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2007/overall_rankings/top_400_universities/)
and not as well in the undergrad national (USNews) rankings.</p>
<p>just because it was three years ago doesn’t make it less true now. its just as good a school for science now then it was then, probably better</p>