<p>Why do u think UVA will pass UCB in ranking as the best public university?</p>
<p>I assume you are referencing US News, which changes their methodology almost yearly to ensure some shuffling of the top schools. I don’t read into the exact placement of the top 10 schools in each area and if you read the methodology, you might not either.</p>
<p>US News is in the business of selling magazines, not ranking colleges.</p>
<p>also… like, even if you do want to use the rankings, you not only have to look into the methodology but also the specific majors and programs you are interested in.</p>
<p>it’s really silly to say that one university is best, another second best etc. because the programs at each are unique and not directly comparable.</p>
<p>both berkeley and uva are great. unfortunately both are out of my price range… esp berkeley. i guess they are just doing a good jod educating their in-state students… sigh</p>
<p>The better question is when will Berkley be moved up to the top 10 where it deserves to be?</p>
<p>Agreed wit El Taco Grande…Berkeley (as UVA) are really shafted in the rankings…UC Berkeley, a university that is known world-wide for their top programs across almost every discipline gets ranked lower than schools like Emory and Notre Dame…it makes no sense…I guess that’s why the US News Rankings is really not a good source for students trying to make informed decisions of where to go to school.</p>
<p>UVA and Berkeley wouldn’t be so low in the rankings if they didn’t admitt so many in-state students, as long as public schools have status quos they will never be in the Top 10, actually I read that in 1994 UVA was the top public school in the US, don’t know when Berkeley regained that spot</p>
<p>LOL. The question should be if UVA will retain it’s position over UCLA and Michigan?</p>
<p>rjkofnovi, you have went on a posting rampage this past week asserting that UVA is overrated and Michigan is, in fact, much better. Someone has a chip on their shoulder :D</p>
<p>By reading your other posts, one can see that you’re clearly biased towards Michigan and that you think UVA is “overrated”. Now, you come to a UVA forum and ask this question, lol, why? You know what your answer would be and you know what ours would be as well, why ask it then? …To initiate a discussion in which you are going to try to show us how Michigan is so much ~better~ than UVA and how UVA is unfairly and undeservingly a few spots above Michigan in the US News Rankings. ~Hilarious~</p>
<p>PS: If what you’re looking for is validation, I don’t think you’ll find it in this page, go over to the Michigan’s page to toot Michigan’s horn, ~enjoy~</p>
<p>The doctoral university rankings rankings are publicity and they probably take into account a university’s graduate programs and where they stand. If a school loses one or two points in score, that school could drop by 5 or 6 spots in one year. </p>
<p>UVA is arguably the best public university in the US when you consider the undergraduate education only, better than Michigan for sure (my sister went there actually), and arguably better than Cal. But for grad programs all around, UVA isn’t a top 10 in as many areas as UC-Berkeley and Michigan. Then again right now, you’re probably not worried about grad school, or just yet at least.</p>
<p>I come here because UVA supporters feel their school is better than Michigan and state it on other boards. In my opinion, they are peers. However, There are very few undergraduate programs at UVA that are rated better on USNWR then at Berkeley or Michigan, which has been shown in many posts by people other than myself. So my answer to the initial question in this thread is NO.</p>
<p>You’re doing a great job in changing our minds.</p>
<p>Uhh, I’m already feeling it…Michigan is WAYYY underrated and UVA is WAYYY overrated…UVA shouldn’t even be in the rankings, and Michigan needs to be a top 10 school…hahaha</p>
<p>obsessed much with the rankings there big boy?</p>
<p>Glad to see you’re feeling the same as I do wahoomb. You are getting smarter with every posting.</p>
<p>Now all I need is a degree from Michigan, hahahahaha.</p>
<p>IMO UVa > UMich. Its not the academics only, the place, people and atmosphere matters as far as students are concerned</p>
<p>Haha, a bunch of Michigan people predicted they would overtake UVa last year, but instead fell to #4 behind UCLA. In the end, rankings don’t matter, but I found their hubris + their drop in ranking = entertaining.</p>
<p>UCB is more selective than UVA by around 8%. Maybe thats one of the reasons why it jumped over UVA… who knows, both are great schools.</p>
<p>UCB’s percentage of students in the top 10% of their class seems impossibly high. We won’t ever report 99% or whatever number they are giving these days. Some methodologies weight that stat heavily.</p>
<p>UCB is only more selective, because the population of California outnumbers Virginia, and the UC’s place highest priority on in-state applicants. Both are great schools and if you asked me, they should be tied for first place for public universities followed by UCLA, UNC and then Michigan.</p>
<p>It’s funny that UCB, a school without AA passes UVA which holds it very important to the application process.</p>
<p>All schools could learn a lesson from it.</p>