see I didn't say that.....all the Calif schools are in the top 35 of all universities. What I meant and i"ll rephrase it is that USC (you) and Stanford spend far more for football than Cal. Private universities in the Pac 10 do and those other guys in the SEC and Big 12 etc spend more on football than academics period. Cal has rarely put football on any priority list which as you know USC does at least more so......I know USC is a good school, outstanding but most people don't realize that at the expense of football and other sports, Cal is the number one university in the world (us news rankings) have more 10 ten programs than anyone else in the US and more PH.D's than anyone. Most people (not you) hear Cal and think liberal and hippies but have no clue that Cal is so revered that they are uniformly heralded world wide....pure academics show Stanford, Cal , MIT and Harvard and Cal Tech and pretty much the cream of the crop......so I'm sorry if I offended you and didn't mean to but we are pretty proud of what Tedfor has done considering are resoureces are nearly as much as yours are for football......accept my apology if I misstated it.....
Cal, of course, remains the flagship of the UC system, with some serious competition from the south in some academic departments.
Your university does suffer from the fact that the community surrounding it is so bonkers leftist that it probably qualifies as the most commie place on the planet today.
I did take one summer school class there years ago (and it's where I took the LSAT) and I never noticed a liberal bias. But I was also naive as hell in those days, so I'm not sure I would have noticed if Fidel Castro was my professor.
My most rightwing friend, and I can hardly imagine anyone more rightwing than him, has sent his daughter to Cal to get her advanced degree. I forget whether it is a Masters or a PhD, but that doesn't really matter. What matters is that he wanted her to get that degree at an incredibly good school. (She went to MIT to get her undergrad degree).