1. Caltech
2. Stanford
3. Cal
4. UCLA
5. Harvey Mudd
6. USC
7. UCSD
8. UCD
9. UCSB
10. CPSLO
11. UCI
12. CPP
13. UCSC
14. UCR
California has 840 miles of coast line. Absolutely no shortage of water.
Desalination and PV technology keep improving, too.
1. Northwestern
2. Notre Dame
3. Wisconsin Madison
4. Ohio State
5. Minnesota Twin Cities
6. Carnegie Mellon
7. University of Chicago
8. Purdue
9. Penn St
10. Washington University St. Louis
11. UIUC
12. Case Western
13. Michigan
So there are plenty of world class educational institutions in the Midwest. Frankly I’d take this list over your list and that’s not including other brand name universities like Indiana, Pitt, Michigan State, Nebraska, or Iowa, some of which do “non-sexy” research in agricultural science and other fields. Ohio State has the only undergraduate wedding engineering program in North America even. It really is an absolute powerhouse of a region with far more national brand name recognition and reputation and monster enrollment numbers.
California has all that stuff because it’s literally further from SF to LA than it is from Columbus to DC.
I was just going off of the “Midwest” versus distance.
> California has all that stuff because it’s literally further from SF to LA than it is from Columbus to DC.
Yea it’s a big state. I’d love to go off of distance though so we can include lots of other fantastic universities just to further drive home my point.
Oh I know plenty of Californian cities, such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Google.
The other ones are good schools, but in a distinctly second tier to that group.
What on earth do you mean by second tier?
For example, when it comes to hardware & electrical engineering, UCSD alone is as productive as say Purdue & Illinois combined. And it’s a young university too.
No, Davis, Berkeley, and Stanford are all 350+ miles from LA.