I'll start with the same metric Steely Dan used for his post. Per USNWR, these are the California schools that rank in the top 200 national universities:
#3. Stanford University, Palo Alto
#9. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
#20. University of California, Los Angeles (tie)
#20. University of California, Berkeley (tie)
#25. University of Southern California, Los Angeles
#32. University of California, Santa Barbara
#34. University of California, Irvine (tie)
#34. University of California, San Diego (tie)
#38. University of California, Davis
#55. Pepperdine University, Malibu (tie)
#55. Santa Clara University, Santa Clara (tie)
#77. Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
#83. University of California, Santa Cruz
#89. University of California, Riverside
#97. University of California, Merced (tie)
#97. University of San Diego (tie)
#105. University of San Francisco
#121. Chapman University, Orange
#137. California State University, Long Beach
#151. San Diego State University, San Diego (tie)
#151. University of La Verne, La Verne (tie)
#151. University of the Pacific, Stockton (tie)
#166. California State University, Fullerton
#194. Biola University, La Mirada (tie)
#194. California State University, San Bernardino (tie)
So of the 25 best national universities in California, 3 are within San Diego's MSA (SD doesn't have a CSA), 6 are within San Francisco's CSA, and 13 are within Los Angeles' CSA.
I will also add the liberal arts schools. Per USNWR, these are the California schools that rank in the top 100 national liberal arts universities (I used the cutoff of top 100 because they stop ranking these schools individually after around #150):
#3. Pomona College, Claremont
#9. Claremont McKenna, Claremont
#29. Harvey Mudd College, Claremont (tie)
#29. Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo (tie)
#33. Pitzer College, Claremont (tie)
#33. Scripps College, Claremont (tie)
#37. Occidental College, Los Angeles
#45. Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula
All of these 8 listed schools are within Los Angeles' CSA.
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Originally Posted by pj3000
If UC Irvine is considered LA... then Princeton should be considered NYC... or is it Philly?
We gotta think of some new topics around here.
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It's not an open question regarding Irvine, though. Irvine is included in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, whichever standard we choose to measure it--the broad CSA, the more attenuated MSA, or the narrow
urban area standard.