(05-05-2017 06:25 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(05-05-2017 05:32 PM)bullet Wrote:  Well California does have 200,000 students on 6 campuses that are in the top 100 schools in the world. And Riverside and Santa Cruz are not that far below. There are only 25 US public schools in the top 100 in the world and no other state has more than 2 (Texas and Pennsylvania are the only ones with 2).

So as a portion of their population, fewer Californians are educated at those 6 campuses than any other state with a school on the top-25 list except Texas (which also has an inadequate system) and Virginia (because William & Mary is a tiny school and UVA is not on that list of top-25 publics for some reason).

Where are you getting your figures? Because they seem to be demonstrably false. Even going by the limitation of only counting schools in the top 25 of public universities let's compare CA and FL.

CA's 6 top-25 campuses have a combined 200,545 students. CA's population is 39.14 million. That's 0.00512 spots per CA resident.

FL's lone top-25 campus has 52,519 students. FL's population is 20.27 million. That's 0.00259 spots per FL resident.

What about Illinois?
IL's lone top-25 campus has 44,087 students. IL's population is 12.86 million. That's 0.00343 spots per IL resident.

What about New York? There are no top-25 public schools there at all to serve its 19.8 million people.

And if we relax the top-25 requirement why should CA limit itself to the students in the UC system? Should it not get credit for the 478,000 in the CSU system or the 2.4 million students in the CA community colleges system?

Seriously, where are you getting your numbers?