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I'm sure there's more great ones in California but I can count 14 off the top of my head; I think all of them are nearly within 300 miles of LA too. 1. Caltech
by rxhernandez 5y ago
I'm sure there's more great ones in California but I can count 14 off the top of my head; I think all of them are nearly within 300 miles of LA too.
1. Caltech
2. Stanford
3. Cal
4. UCLA
5. Harvey Mudd
6. USC
7. UCSD
8. UCD
9. UCSB
10. CPSLO
11. UCI
12. CPP
13. UCSC
14. UCR
- N1H1L 5y agoI will take Stanford and the UCs. Every other school in that list comes below the Midwestern powerhouses
- ericmay 5y agoIdk what we consider the “Midwest to be” but here are some schools generally in the area that are good. Happy to delete any you don’t like. No particular order. ;) 1. Northwestern 2. Notre Dame 3. Wisconsin Madison 4. Ohio State 5. Minnesota Twin Cities 6. Carnegie Mellon 7. University of Chicago 8. Purdue 9. Penn St 10. Washington University St. Louis 11. UIUC 12. Case Western 13. Michigan So there are plenty of world class educational institutions in the Midwest. Frankly I’d take this list over your list and that’s not including other brand name universities like Indiana, Pitt, Michigan State, Nebraska, or Iowa, some of which do “non-sexy” research in agricultural science and other fields. Ohio State has the only undergraduate wedding engineering program in North America even. It really is an absolute powerhouse of a region with far more national brand name recognition and reputation and monster enrollment numbers.
- empthought 5y agoCornell (ever heard of it?) is just as close to Columbus as UW-Madison is. California has all that stuff because it’s literally further from SF to LA than it is from Columbus to DC.
- ericmay 5y ago> Cornell (ever heard of it?) is just as close to Columbus as UW-Madison is. I was just going off of the “Midwest” versus distance. > California has all that stuff because it’s literally further from SF to LA than it is from Columbus to DC. Yea it’s a big state. I’d love to go off of distance though so we can include lots of other fantastic universities just to further drive home my point.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> I think all of them are nearly within 300 miles of LA too. No, Davis, Berkeley, and Stanford are all 350+ miles from LA.
- jasonlotito 5y agoI mean, if you are going to count campuses, Penn State has like 20+ alone.
- kragen 5y agoIt sounds like maybe you think UCLA and Berkeley are as closely related as the different campuses of Penn State, but that is far from the truth.
- Bayart 5y agoI know what one of those acronyms means.
- mikestew 5y agoIf you substitute "University of California" for "UC", you'll be able to decipher a lot more of them if you know your California cities. For example, "UCSD" translates to "UC San Diego". "CP" gets you "California Polytechnical", but good luck sussing "SLO" unless you've been anywhere near San Luis Obispo.
- Bayart 5y ago> you'll be able to decipher a lot more of them if you know your California cities Oh I know plenty of Californian cities, such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Google.
- adamcstephens 5y agoThe other difference, which parent didn’t mention, is the Ohio has plenty of water.
- vanattab 5y agoAnd it doesn't even catch on fire anymore! https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Cuyahoga_River_Fire https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Cuyahoga_River_Fire
- axiolite 5y ago> Ohio has plenty of water California has 840 miles of coast line. Absolutely no shortage of water. Desalination and PV technology keep improving, too.
- adamcstephens 5y agoDesalination is awesome, and I love to see it improve. No matter how good it is, it won’t be cheaper than water that is available in rivers and aquifers.
- outside1234 5y agoCaltech, Stanford, Cal, and Harvey Mudd are on the same tier with Purdue, Michigan, Illinois, CM. The other ones are good schools, but in a distinctly second tier to that group.
- rxhernandez 5y agoYou think UCLA, USC, and UCSD are second tier? Last I checked, UCSD is #9 for engineering in the nation, which is above UIUC at #10. USC is #12 and UCLA is #16 relative to Columbia at #15, John Hopkins at #17, Harvard at #21, Princeton at #22, and UW at #22. What on earth do you mean by second tier?
- N1H1L 5y agoStanford and Berkeley are amazing, Caltech is definitely tier 2, while Harvey Mudd is not even an R2 school
- today20201014 5y agoHarvey Mudd is an undergraduate-only college. All the others are R1 institutions.
- jerrybender 5y agoThe two Cal Polys are not R1 institutions, they do not offer PhDs.
- ensan 5y agoThat’s such an ignorant statement. For example, when it comes to hardware & electrical engineering, UCSD alone is as productive as say Purdue & Illinois combined. And it’s a young university too.
- N1H1L 5y agoAnd when it comes to materials science, Penn State will run circles around all of them.
- wolverine876 5y ago
- ensan 5y agoYou forgot Berkeley.
- rxhernandez 5y agoCal == Berkeley