What is each UC known for [overall major(s)-wise]?

Question

I am currently a senior in high school.

I intend to become a Marketing Manager, but I don't know which school would offer the better courses and have the better reputation.
(For undergraduate, of course.)

UC's:
Berkeley -
Davis -
Irvine -
Los Angeles -
Merced -
Riverside -
San Diego -
San Francisco -
Santa Barbara -
Santa Cruz -

[For example, San Francisco's main major(s) is what? Medicine basically?]

Answer 1

When you talk about specialization, that is for graduate school. It doesn't make a difference really in undergraduate work. All the UCs are top notch undergraduate studies and they do not vary much from major to major. It is when you go to graduate school that the universities start to differ and become more specialized. You have to look up each department and find out what research each faculty is doing to get the picture. Its not easy to do.

Here is a sample:
Berkeley : Public Policy, Law, Medicine, Sciences, Ethnic Studies, Business
Davis: Agriculture, Vet School, Biological Sciences
Irvine: Sciences, Engineering, Computer Sciences
Los Angeles: Law, Film, Library Science, Sciences, Ethnic Studies, Business, Medicine
Merced: Just started up. Not established at anything at this point.
Riverside: Biological Sciences, Citrus Plants/Avacados,
San Diego: Marine Sciences, Sciences, Medicine
San Francisco: Pharmacy School, Medicine, Biological Sciences
Santa Barbara: Theoretical Sciences
Santa Cruz: Environment, Astronomy

There is more to each school than what is listed. But they all have graduate programs that support those items listed. Look for their schools in marketing and find out what each professor specializes in, and you will know for sure. If you are just persuing a Bachelors, it doesn't matter which one you really go to. Berkeley and UCLA have the most prestige followed by San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Irvine if you do not count medicine. Once you finish you should know where to go for a higher degree if you wish to pursue. Most of the schools are ranked by their strength in their graduate programs. Undergrad has the same core requirements basically everywhere. Its only the upper level electives and graduate courses and research that differ.

Answer 2

San Francisco is the only one which is really specialized, and focuses on medical-related subject matters (medicine is not an undergraduate major). Beyond that, Davis is best known for agriculture-related subject matters (although my sister graduated from there in Psychology and had a very good experience), and San Diego is strongest in the physical sciences. The others really don't specialize. Each has dozens of excellent programs, so rather than asking what a school is good at, it makes more sense to identify a particular subject matter in which you are interested and look at which schools have good programs in that area.

Also, keep in mind that what a school is known for has little to do with the quality of their undergraduate programs. If a school has a reputation for excellence, it is generally for the quality of the faculty research. In most subject matters, there is little relationship between the academic research emerging from the faculty and the quality of teaching in the department.

Answer 3

I dunno but CSU Monterey Bay is known for thier Marine Bio Major.