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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]There is some correlation because 25% of the survey draws from peer assessment, of which 2/3 comes from college administrators and 1/3 comes from high school counselors. 
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But the actual ranking of prestige is different from the US News list: https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2013/02/28/which-universities-are-ranked-highest-by-college-officials

As you can see, there are a lot of public schools in here which do poorly on the overall rank. US New's methodology inherently favors schools with a ton of money. Princeton ranks #1 because it has the highest endowment per student of any college in the country and therefore can make its class sizes small/faculty ratios low/etc. Public schools don't anywhere near the same financial resources for undergraduates.[/quote]

This. I think USNews somewhat reflects prestige within academia more than "lay" prestige. And they also emphasize undergraduate education. many big name schools, especially state flagships, excel at the graduate level, but smaller privates usually outperform for undergraduate education, where they have smaller classes and more personal attention. Though, you do have anomalies, like Northeastern and WUSTL, which USNews tends to rank far beyond the estimation of anyone else.[/quote]

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