How UCLA, USC stack up

U.S. News is out with its annual survey of graduate programs at the nation's major universities, and the two big local schools are near the top in several categories. Well, kind of. In engineering USC is 8th, UCLA 13th, in law UCLA is 16th, USC 18th, and in business UCLA is 11th, USC 21st. If this were football, they’d be going to the Gator or Cotton bowls. While Harvard, Yale and MIT get much of the attention, both Berkeley and Stanford fare better when looking at all three disciplines. In engineering, Caltech ranks sixth. U.S. News bases its results on peer assessment, recruiter assessment, acceptance rate, and faculty, among other factors.


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