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).
wow......she must be smarter than hell, MIT and Cal, but yeah like most liberal universities....like most of them, you get out of the Social Sciences and Journalism dept and it is pretty much serious competitive stuff....oh yeah, Boalt Hall, the law school is pretty lib too but for the most part it is do or die......no time for politics...most people here just walk around most of the liberal activist idiots.......they are colorful but that is about it