<p>Let’s be a little more objective. Consider the argument, schools that you think are impressive would list impressive schools as their peers.</p>
<p>7/13 of CMU’s peers list CMU as a peer, those peers follow.
California Inst of Tech;Georgia Inst of Tech;Massachusetts Inst of Tech;Northwestern U;Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst;Rice U;Washington U in St. Louis</p>
<p>27/60 of UofM’s peers list UofM as a peer:Georgia Inst of Tech;Indiana U, GeorgiaInstofTech;IndianaU,Bloomington;IowaStateU;MichiganStateU;OhioStateU;PennState,UPark;PurdueU,WestLafayette;RutgersU,NewBrunswick;SUNY,StonyBrook;TexasA&MU,CollegeStation;UatBuffalo;U;ofArizona;UofColorado,Boulder;UofFlorida;UofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign;UofIowa;Uof;Kansas;UofMaryland,CollegePark;UofMinnesota-TwinCities;UofMissouri,Columbia;UofNorth;Carolina,ChapelHill;UofOregon;UofPittsburghmaincampus;UofTexas,Austin;UofVirginia;UofWashington;UofWisconsin,Madison</p>
<p>Source:
<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/Peers-Interactive-Data/134262/[/url]”>http://chronicle.com/article/Peers-Interactive-Data/134262/</a></p>