In regards to California what are the differences between the UC system of schools and State Colleges and State Universities?

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The main difference between UC schools and State schools is the price. UC schools are much more expensive than State schools. The UC schools are also harder to get into. It also depends on what you want to major in as well. If you want to be an elementary school teacher, attending a State school would be better than a UC because the program is better and focuses more on that major. UC schools also tend to be much bigger in population. It is pretty much all a preference and what you want to major in. State colleges and State Universities are the same thing. If you decide to go to San Diego State University, you can easily transfer to any one of the other State Colleges in California. All the schools have pretty much the same transfer system, except for Monterey Bay State. MBSU is kind of a school off on it's own. It's hard to make all your courses transfer there and it's hard for your courses there to transfer anywhere else.

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The principal difference between the UC system and the CSU system is that the UC system was designed to produce graduates with bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees with an emphasis on research and theory while the CSU system was designed to produce graduates principally with bachelors with a few masters programs. UC schools make professors, CSU school make working professional adults. Since the UC schools make professors and do extensive research, they have higher reputations than their smaller cousins.

having attended both, I found the quality of education to be consistently better at the CSU system than at the UC sysetm campuses. The more recognized professors in the UC schools have graduate student assistants that perform a great deal of the instruction where as the CSU profs do it themelves,

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UC = Research Intensive, CSU = Research. UC is great, absolutely top - notch for GRADUATE schools. UC is criticized for sending out BACHELORs like a factory. True, world class professors that write the textbooks, but will you learn from a textbook that is world class if you never knew there was a textbook that existed in the first place? I'm at a UC right now, and you'll do great if you seen everything BEFORE you enter the school, i.e. taken actual COLLEGE COURSES, not necessarily AP ( that depends on the rigor of your high school AP program and test score).

I hear CSU's are smaller and pay more attention to their students. Smaller class size has a lot to do with the kind of learner you are. At my UC, I have to create my own study groups, tutors, professor office hours, and look at extra books, study guides, old textbooks to get the kind of learning I work best with, direct and small. Some people don't even go to lecture, and do fine, the UC works best for these people.

Agreed depends on your major. Science, Bio, Engineering = Research. UC is much better in this regard. But, once you succeed you have a MASTERS and now basically enter the world of Academia to become a professional researcher, professor, or just researcher. I found this out at the GRADUATE FORUM AT UC DAVIS.

There's the best college, and the best college for you

Wow! The third answer seems to have plenty of grammatical error for a person that attends to a UC. I recommend improving your grammar before you take your english course due to your writing issues. In addition, smaller class sizes has nothing to do with "the kind of learner you are." Also, UCs also have small classes depending on the course you are taking. For example, an english class in UC is fairly small compared to a biology class in CSU. Finally, a lot of students from ANY schools do not attend class and does exceptionally well. Please think about what you write before you comment.

"There's the best college, and the best college for you" does not make sense at all.
Please revise this statement.
P.S. - YOU ARE A HORRIBLE HORRIBLE writer.

To the ever so observant eye of the comment above me, let it be known that you have various "errors" in your bashing statements. To reiterate, it is YOU who should think before writing flaming comments at those who are trying to be informative to the best of their knowledge. As for the closing line of the third answer "There's the best college, and the best college for you", it made perfect sense to me that while the "best" colleges could be seen as top rated colleges does not necessarily mean that those particular colleges are best for everyone based on a variety of variables ranging from income, specificity of major/field of learning, location, religious affiliation, etc.

P.S. Only someone who is insecure about their own writing would harshly judge another's as being horrible.

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I tend to agree with the last comment; you all have bad grammar...! Perhaps people are editing others' comments to make everyone look silly... I'll give ya the benefit of the doubt.

In regards to my experience with the above question, I am a recent graduate from a top CSU and I was a candidate who turned down the UC system, including UCLA, after graduating from High School.

Someone seriously considering college should do their own research into the programs offered by each university (UC/CSU or not). More importantly, it isn't as much the college you choose as compared to the work you put into your undergraduate studies. Your future employer will be looking at: Experience, GPA, & Prestige. Yes, there are minimum GPAs for most competitive positions, especially because over

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