<p>"If you really stop and think about how complex the academic and college experience is you will realize that "ranking" colleges is a very difficult if not impossible task, especially among groups of high-end, middle level and lower level schools. USNews is perhaps one of the poorest systems because of the many arbitrary items and weighting that go into it. One of the best analyses of this ranking is provided by Brian Leiter who also offers a fairly rational approach to ranking that makes the most sense to me. But read his treatise and ranking and decide for yourself: </p>
<p>his ranking is pretty poor, as well.........:(</p>