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TheMole, on UCSD vs. UCI - I don't know how the history department of UCSD stacks up in general vs. other schools/schools in the UC system (and those rankings can be deceiving anyways!), but I'm in a different subfield (where UCSD is honestly one of the top programs, period) and had an offer from UCSD and UCSC. I've gone with SD for a lot of reasons, mostly just because I think it's a better fit overall, but if SC had been a better fit, I wouldn't have UCSD's standing really sway me. It seems that a lot of the 'smaller/lesser known' UC schools are really trying to claw their way up to the top of the heap & really aggressively going after really good grad students and trying to build very strong programs to rival the bigger names. I think it's better to be in a program on its way up than on the way down.