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That US News & World Report ranking - is that undergrad or graduate departments?
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<p>It's a ranking of PhD programs. The point is, though, that the ranking is pretty much a measure of faculty strength and departmental resources. How this information should be interpreted for the purpose of analyzing an undergraduate program is debatable, and very much depends on the individual in question (it's much more relevant, for instance, to someone who wants to pursue high-level / advanced study or later go into a PhD program than someone who isn't particularly interested in that).</p>