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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For most kids, engineering requires a significant commitment. So if the kid likes Aerospace, then a dedicated Aerospace program should carry significant weight. On the other hand, UCONN is a land grant school and a state flagship. It will have very good programs in engineering. And it will be well funded. And it will offer a more traditional experience. And there will be a broad spectrum of kids.

Rankings are mostly dumb as people do not understand the meaning of ordinal, interval, or ratio number systems. I mean no ill will toward Delaware or Wichita State, but a system that ranks those engineering programs above, say, Case Western is a system that measures things that I don’t care about.

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OP here. Agree with you about the Engineering rankings. The schools at the top make sense but after the top 10-20? USNWP has RPI at 34, but schools like WPI and Stevens at 61 and 82 respectively. NJIT at 90. Those are dedicated STEM schools, producing engineers almost exclusively. NJIT ranked same as University of New Mexico doesn't make sense. UC Davis is a great school, but not better for Engineering than CWRU (and graduates &lt;10% of its class with Engineering degrees, vs. &gt;25% at CWRU)--yet UC Davis ranked higher. 
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