The acceptance rate at UC Irvine is 28.8%. This means the school is very selective. If you meet UC Irvine’s requirements for GPA, SAT/ACT scores, and other components of the application, you have a great shot at getting in.

While Irvine isn’t known as party city, UC San Diego is the campus that has been dubbed “UC Socially Dead.” UC San Diego is known to have a quieter social scene but is in a gorgeous area of California, which draws students in.

Ranking-wise, UCI is overall higher and steadily climbing the ranks; so even if you switch majors you’ll have lots of distinguished major selections. UCSD does objectively have a greater social-life. If you’ve ever visited you must’ve heard the buzz around their annual events.

The Money recognition is the latest in a series putting UCI in the top tier of U.S. universities for affordability and excellence. Last year, Money ranked UCI No.

26.5% (2020)

Admissions Overview UC Irvine admissions is very selective with an acceptance rate of 27%. Students that get into UC Irvine have an average SAT score between 1170-1420 or an average ACT score of 24-33. The regular admissions application deadline for UC Irvine is November 30.

University of California – Irvine reported 530 safety-related incidents involving students on or near campus or other UC Irvine affiliated properties in 2019. Of the 3,990 colleges and universities that reported crime and safety data, 3,857 of them reported fewer incidents than this.

UC rankings 2021

UC Berkeley

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1. California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo (SLO) – Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is ranked #12 by US News for Best Regional Universities West. With a record low acceptance rate of 25% in 2019, Cal Poly SLO is by far the most competitive and most exclusive Cal State University.

Rankings: All UC schools are ranked extremely high, whereas CSU schools typically rank well but not great. Selectivity: UC schools are generally much harder to get into than CSU schools, which range in acceptance rate from as low as 30% to as high as 100%

Stanford University

• California Institute of Technology. 4 Year. Pasadena, CA.
• Stanford University. 4 Year.
• Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute. San Francisco, CA.
• Pomona College. 4 Year.
• Harvey Mudd College. 4 Year.
• Claremont McKenna College. 4 Year.
• University of Southern California. 4 Year.
• University of California – Berkeley. 4 Year.

UC Santa Cruz

With your Stats, I would consider the top CSU’s: Cal Poly SLO, SDSU, CSULB, CSUF, Cal Poly Pomona. The UCs are the traditional schools for premed students in Calif who are attending state schools. While it’s possible to get into med school from a CSU, the CSUs probably aren’t your best choices.

The reason Berkeley is ranked lower mainly because of Industry Income. If you mean the falling ranking of UC Berkeley in the “value” category it is because of the incredibly high cost of housing. UC Berkeley is still highly ranked in all of the global reputation surveys.

The distinction between the University of California schools and the Ivy League colleges can be most clearly seen by comparing the UC system’s two most famous members — UC Berkeley and UCLA — to the Ivy League. UC Berkeley is the engineering powerhouse of the group.

Once again, UC Berkeley joins five other world universities in a cluster known as the “elite six,” in newly released 2017 reputation rankings by Times Higher Education. As it did last year, Berkeley placed sixth, after Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cambridge and Oxford.

UC Berkeley ranked fifth on Forbes’ 2019 list of best-value colleges, again surpassing both Stanford University and Harvard University. This set of rankings aims to give incoming students an overview of colleges that not only provide quality academics, but also do so at a manageable cost for their students.

NYU for the most part is less prestigious than UC Berkeley. For law school, Columbia, NYU, and Chicago are all slightly more prestigious than Berkeley. For business school, Penn, Columbia, and Chicago are slightly more prestigious than Berkeley. NYU is equivalent to Berkeley, maybe slightly below.

UC Berkeley ranks among the top public schools in the world. UC Berkeley is not for every student that is offered admission. Cal is about learning, not about having fun. The education at Cal is wonderful and challenging, even for the brightest students.