@IsaacTheFuture From what I have read the top schools for US News are not always the most heavily recruited for industry. US News doesn’t ask employers where they hire from. Like @Alexandre said, that is list is more a reflection of research & other academic stuff, and industry jobs can be more local or maybe a company just likes certain schools. For example, I saw a industry list and Michigan, Stanford, MIT, UIUC and Caltech were not in there but U Colorado, Penn State and U Florida were. I have seen Iowa State and Cal Poly mentioned in other places as having a good reputation. I don’t think US News list is wrong, just not that accurate there are lots of places you can go.
For instance there is actually a pretty big & growing aerospace industry in Denver, they hire grads from U Colorado, and that is a school OOS ppl don’t always think about.
Probably in the future the schools in the southwest are going to be good places because the new space companies are there, but of course they recruit nationally too.