Why isn't Cal Poly San Luis Obispo higher ranked?

mino74ur
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:07:08 +0000

I would strongly suggest your re-evaluate your claim that the engineering department at UCSD is inferior in comparison to SLO.

A great place to start a comparison would be in considering overall contribution to the field not only by evaluating graduates but also research and publication. Both polys are good architecture schools and certainly SLO is a great Aggie school (and a progressive one at that) but it is certainly not up to the engineering standards set by UCSD in the general context of the educational field in my opinion and from my experiences.

Even schools like UCLA fall short in comparison to UCSD in engineering whose structure has much more in common with schools like Cornell and CalTech. In computer science and art there is also no comparison between the standards set between the two schools.

SLO is undeniably a great school for the cost, and we certainly need more Cal-states which are affordable and at a high standard but it does not do SLO justice to say their engineering dept is superior to UCSD. You can get a strong engineering education at SLO, but it would be more fair to place it along the lines of engineering at Riverside and Santa Cruz (Omitting Aero and Astronautical) and in specialized areas at Irvine/Davis or Santa Barbara with the exception of electrical engineering, SLO is pretty close to being on par.

As for the social atmosphere, I’d certainly prefer SLO but if you leave UCSD’s campus in general the women at SD State and in San Diego are quite tough to beat. The University of San Diego (Not UCSD) girls are all pretty wealthy, generally hot but not community college hot, and many come from catholic high schools which really makes for a great weekend out if you know how to hunt them down. Now with that Cuesta and SLO cant hold up a candle, at least Santa Barbara isn’t impossibly far…