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[quote]  NP--I don't know about the rest, but the PP is way closer to the truth than you are about how the rankings of individual departments are created.[/quote]

This discussion is about the rankings of colleges, not individual departments.    Given how often the USNWR rankings are invoked on this site, it strikes me as either surprisingly ignorant or dishonest to try to assert "oh, those rankings are actually just based on a few phone calls" but at any rate, I'm glad today can be a learning experience.  Here are links that explain the data the main ranking systems draw on:

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawhitford/2022/08/30/how-we-rank-americas-top-colleges/?sh=66eb3b781b66

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/wall-street-journal-times-higher-education-college-rankings-2022

https://money.com/best-colleges/methodology/

https://www.degreechoices.com/best-colleges/[/quote]

Why would you care more about "overall college rankings" than the major/dept your kid is interested in?  Ultimately, my kid is going for eng and/or CS so I don't really care that their humanities dept makes them top ranked.  I want a great STEM program and to know the resources are there for internships/coops/research that interests my kid.

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