Forbes: How UC Berkeley Beat Out the Ivy League

This year, Forbes factored in outcomes for low-income students, and it led to UC Berkeley beating out Ivy Plus schools in their rankings.

 

I hope they could remove the mandatory residency requirements for their online MPH.

 

Did you check out University of Minnesota which now officially offers a fully distance online degree. I'm biased but I think their program and faculty is better than Berkeley & UCLA.

https://www.sph.umn.edu/academics/degrees-programs/mph/distance-public-health-administration-policy/

 

Being a Public Ivy graduate in 1988 from UC Irvine and someone whom worked and did some post graduate studies at UCLA as well as a father of a daughter that was a UCSB double major it's no surprise that the UC's more than compete with the Ivy League. Honestly, I've always felt east coast bias sways people to be overly enthusiastic with the Ivy League while great schools on the west coast are often overlooked.

https://scholarships360.org/college-admissions/public-ivy-league-schools/

 

I know the term originated with the sports league, but hardly anyone thinks of that when referring to the Ivy League schools. Language is ever evolving, and words take on new meaning depending on how the speakers decide to commonly use the word. Ivy has become a genericized word, which is why we have Public Ivies, Ivy Plus, Little Ivies, etc.

https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/15-product-trademarks-that-have-become-victims-of-genericization/

 

These are highly-ranked schools nationally and internationally, and admissions to the online programs housed within the traditional departments are competitive. I created the list in response to an article that claimed that few online programs are offered by the Ivy League universities. I've created many lists about different types of schools and programs. I don't see how offering online programs changes the fact that students who attend these schools have excellent networking opportunities and that many top employers directly recruit from these schools.

It's no surprise that an Ivy Plus school or a Public Ivy could beat out Ivy league schools. They beat out some of them every year, but the name "Ivy" has become synonymous with academic prestige for a reason.