Explain This Smart People....

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<p>How can Rochester have a darn good BME program, and a World Class Optical Engineering program and still be ranked #79 in undergraduate engineering in US News?</p>

<p>In the US News grad rankings, the overall engineering rankings have Rochester in the 30's with its BME program ranked in the 30's. I think the problem is that they lump the optical engineering program with physics and ranks in the top 10 in the optics subcategory.</p>

<p>Some Majors and Minors that are different from the norm: </p>

<p>In addition, you can minor in Bio-Environmental Engineering: <a href="http://www.seas.rochester.edu/SEAS/options/bioenvironmental.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.seas.rochester.edu/SEAS/options/bioenvironmental.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Also, you can minor in Material Science Engineering: <a href="http://www.seas.rochester.edu:8080/SEAS/options/msc.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.seas.rochester.edu:8080/SEAS/options/msc.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>In addition, you can major in Geomechanics. Its a degree within the Mechanical Engineering Department and Earth Science Department (Look at the engineering courses that need to be taken): <a href="http://www.earth.rochester.edu/undergrad_program.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.earth.rochester.edu/undergrad_program.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Explain This......</p>

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<p>That's easy, rankings aren't everything, and if you need a strong ranking to tell you that a school is right for you then you aren't considering the most important things when choosing a school.</p>