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Los Angeles CSA:
#1-California Institute of Technology (Los Angeles MSA)
#2/3-University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles MSA)
#2/3-University of Southern California (Los Angeles MSA)
Humorous to Caltech on that list. It's barely noticed three blocks from campus (the much larger Pasadena City College dominates) and is a total non-factor for the LA metro.
Humorous to Caltech on that list. It's barely noticed three blocks from campus (the much larger Pasadena City College dominates) and is a total non-factor for the LA metro.
Yeah but it's way more prestigious which is what the poster was ranking by. Their STEM programs compete with MIT and Stanford.
Oh I know the geography. But Lawrence, KS is especially close to the KCMO metro area, and thus is able to be counted as part of the KC metro in extended definitions.
I taught high school in a small town near Kansas City. Very few of my students went to Mizzou. Most that wanted to attend a state school ended up at KU or K-State. Very strange!
Yeah but it's way more prestigious which is what the poster was ranking by. Their STEM programs compete with MIT and Stanford.
I sure hope so (I'm an alum), but it's just humorous to see it mentioned on a thread that is nominally "de facto schools". It's a great school but beyond tiny.
I taught high school in a small town near Kansas City. Very few of my students went to Mizzou. Most that wanted to attend a state school ended up at KU or K-State. Very strange!
Which side of the state line were you on? If you were on the Kansas side, it would make sense. My friend from KC, MO said a lot of his HS classmates ended up at MU.
Public over private, for the purpose of this thread that I do not really understand. So UCLA not USC, Cal not Stanford, etc. Public schools have way more students, and locals who don't have connections to either school will most likely have more of an affinity for the public school versus the private school (at least that's my experience, people not associated with either like Cal not Stanford).
For most cities you'd be correct, but not for LA. USC and UCLA have similar sized student bodies and alumni groups. USC is the older school, so traditionally a lot of businesses in LA are run by SC alums. UCLA had better academics in many areas until recently, but private USC has been able to recruit several UCLA researchers with higher salaries and new labs/facilities. Most academic ranking publications see them as pretty much equals now, which was not the case even a decade ago. Finally, while not the case as of late, USC has had a lot of success in football, and since there was no NFL team until this year, a lot of locals that don't have any affiliation with USC are fans of the football team. So similar student populations and academic rankings, but more locally active alumni and more successful football teams over time mean the LA area leans towards USC, except right around Westwood.
I sure hope so (I'm an alum), but it's just humorous to see it mentioned on a thread that is nominally "de facto schools". It's a great school but beyond tiny.
Yeah, it's definitely not the de-facto university (the admission rate is far too low for it to have that much influence) but the previous poster said he was ranking by prestigious-ness, see:
So I was just defending Caltech's rightful position at #1 in the LA metro in terms of prestigious-ness. In the context of this thread I would say UCLA is the premier institution for that metro.
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