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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dartmouth stem is terrible.  Brown is meh. Plenty of STEM oriented kids rightfully would choose Northwestern.[/quote]

This is true. You'd think for inclusion into the top ten, you'd have to be broadly good at everything. I don't think Brown or Dartmouth belong here precisely because they don't have much of a presence in engineering. Similarly, I don't think CalTech belongs here either because they have no presence at all in humanities or social sciences. Say what you will about MIT, but they have a great English department and a world class business school. It's obviously one of the world's best comprehensive universities.

But Brown, Dartmouth, and CalTech? No. If you can't compete in engineering or computer science in 2024, you shouldn't be included on any top 10 university list. Similarly, if you don't even have an English or History department, you are far too specialized to be ranked so high. Would replace those three with Cornell, Rice, and Berkeley, who are all good at everything and not notably weak in anything. 
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What does a ranking even mean if you are throwing in things that are extraneous to a person considering it?  Does Consumer Reports combine huge pickups and sports cars in the same category?[/quote]

Consumer Reports actually isn't dramatically different.  They list their highest-ranked cars across all categories (so yes, you might see a Tesla alongside an F150 alongside a Prius, etc.).  They also list the highest cars by SUV, compact, sedan, minivan, etc.

USNews breaks out their rankings by best business, engineering, math, chemistry, etc. if that's all you care about vs. how a school does overall.[/quote]

Does anyone come in shopping for an F150 to use on their farm come away buying a Mini?  [/quote]

I don't get your point.

Does anyone who wants to study agriculture tto take over the family farm, attend one of the overall Top 10 schools that don't offer an agriculture program (at least I don't think any do)?  I assume they don't even apply to those schools.

Do some people that think they want to purchase a minivan end up buying an SUV?  Sure...and vice versa.[/quote]

If I am interested in quality of education provided or quality vs cost, which one might think is what a college ranking would be about, does USNWR provide any value?  [/quote]

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