<p>First of all, just to get all that hate messages such as "you're so insecure stop staring at rankings" gone, i'd like to say that i do know how limited rankings reveal how good a school is.</p>
<p>I was looking through US news specialty rankings for undergrad engineering (Industrial/Manufacturing).</p>
<p>and the list goes
1. Georgia Tech -<br>
2. Michigan -<br>
3. Purdue -<br>
4. Berkeley -<br>
5. Virginia Tech -<br>
6. Stanford -<br>
7. Texas A&M<br>
8. Northwestern<br>
9. Penn State - University Park
10.UIUC</p>
<p>How come most schools here (except Stanford and Berkeley) are listed so high even though their acceptance rates are unbelievably high (ranging from 50~70)
when compared to other more selective schools such as MIT and Cornell (didn't even make the list)?</p>
<p>I'm certainly not discrediting any of these schools as many are great public schools. However, one would think selectivity = better quality of students = higher ranking? (perhaps my logic is flawed here)</p>
<p>It also appears that all of the schools are big schools with a large student body.
What are the criteria for these rankings?</p>