<p>Those rankings aren’t even trying to evaluate quality of teaching, but the emphasis a school puts on undergraduate teaching.
They are schools that have “a particular focus on undergraduate teaching”, no matter how good this teaching is. Clearly if we put U’s and LAC’s together in this ranking all the LAC’s would win, but if we actually found a way to measure quality, I wonder which schools would come out on top, and it would likely not be many of the schools on that list.</p>