<p>Yeah, the Davis drop was disturbing. Irvine’s jump now created 4 UCs in the top 10 publics which is quite amazing.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in long term progress, here’s the 2002 rankings:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/pres/comments/usnews2.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/pres/comments/usnews2.pdf</a></p>
<p>As you can see, UC San Diego was above USC at least in 2002.</p>