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<p>I never said TAMU was a better overall university. UT is a great school. I said, and I quote:
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<p>Besides that fact, U.S. News is an inherently imperfect ranking system, as are pretty much all ranking systems. They are very good at putting schools into the rough area they belong in, but beyond that, they aren’t nearly as useful as many people treat them.</p>
<p>The USNWR rankings are no better than the BCS rankings for NCAA football or AFI’s rankings of the 100 best movies of all time… they are based on a set of subjective criteria created by potentially biased people. For example, US News ranks CalTech as the second best undergraduate aerospace engineering department in the country. CalTech doesn’t even have an undergraduate aerospace engineering department.</p>
<p>The rankings are a wonderful tool, but they are far from the end-all be-all of college quality.</p>