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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saw this and thought it was interesting. Basically someone took the average ranking of each college from these sources and created a composite rank for each school relative to all the other schools. It was noted schools like Georgetown and Duke were underranked by US News and schools like UChicago and JHU were overranked. Some of these rankings included focus more on academics and some more on ROI, so with a composite I believe the idea was to see which schools excel in all the important metrics for undergrad.

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100% UChicago is way overrated by US News. In today’s world you can’t be a truly top university without an engineering program.[/quote]

But, you can be considered a truly top university without a top Engineering program. There are quite a few of those listed here. [/quote]

No school in US News top 10 has a weak engineering program. The weakest is Yale and they're not terrible.[/quote]

My point is if you’re a top ten school, you should be close to/in the top ten in all disciplines. Harvard is not close to top ten in Engineering.  Neither is Yale or Duke. [/quote]

Harvard is 27th for undergrad engineering, Duke is 16th, and Yale is 33rd. Not bad at all, especially considering Harvard has a dedicated engineering school 15 minutes across the river from it called MIT.[/quote]

“Not bad at all” doesn’t sound like a ringing endorsement for an elite school. .  [/quote]

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