US News ranking

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<li><p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</p>

<li>Stanford University (CA)</li>
<li>University of California–Berkeley</li>
<li>Georgia Institute of Technology</li>
<li>University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN)</li>
<li>University of Michigan–Ann Arbor</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University ¶</li>
<li>University of Southern California (Viterbi)</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Cornell University (NY)</li>
<li>University of California–San Diego (Jacobs)</li>
<li>University of Texas–Austin</li>
<li>Texas A&M University–College Station (Look)</li>
<li>University of California–Los Angeles (Samueli)</li>
<li>University of Maryland–College Park (Clark)</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin–Madison</li>
<li>Princeton University (NJ)</li>
<li>Pennsylvania State University–University Park</li>
<li>Columbia University (Fu Foundation) (NY)</li>
<li>Harvard University (MA)</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) (MD)</li>
<li>Northwestern University (McCormick) (IL)</li>
<li>University of California–Santa Barbara</li>
<li>University of Washington</li>
<li>Ohio State University</li>
<li>University of Florida</li>
<li>University of Minnesota–Twin Cities</li>
<li>Rice University (Brown) (TX)</li>
<li>Duke University (NC)</li>
<li>Virginia Tech</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>North Carolina State University</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis (Sever)</li>
<li>University of California–Davis</li>
<li>University of Rochester (NY)</li>
<li>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>University of Colorado–Boulder</li>
<li>Yale University (CT)</li>
<li>University of California–Irvine (Samueli)</li>
<li>Boston University</li>
<li>Case Western Reserve University (OH)</li>
<li>Dartmouth College (Thayer) (NH)</li>
<li>Iowa State University</li>
<li>University of Delaware</li>
<li>Arizona State University (Fulton)</li>
<li>Lehigh University (Rossin) ¶</li>
<li>Rutgers State University–New Brunswick (NJ)</li>
<li>Vanderbilt University (TN)</li>
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<p>I don’t want to base my school on its ranking, but I want to know what you people think about this ranking? Is it really that accurate?</p>

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<p>It's for graduate school.</p>

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<p>Yours is for graduate schools and even then it must be taken with a grain of salt. I am never sure which is worse: US News rankings or all the people who believe they actually define which school is better than another. Those listed are in fact very good graduate schools but which is better than another simply depends on what you claim to be measuring and usuing as a yardstick and one factor never used in any of these rankings is whether you will actually be well taught. That the ranking should not really be relied on is demonstrated by CalTech. It is in fact considered by those in the engineering/science industry to be right up there with MIT. However, its number 10 ranking is caused by an emphasis US News puts on the factors of total research expenditures and total Ph.D's awarded. CalTech's numbers are significantly lower than others for those two factors simply because it is much smaller than the others, but those two factors cause it to be No. 10 rather than in the top two or three.</p>

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<p>actually this is an undergrad ranking. US News is probably the most accurate ranking.</p>

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<p>These are the graduate rankings.</p>

<p>I agree with drusba. Caltech is considered a consensus top 4 program by industry and academia, along with MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley.</p>

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<li><p>University of Southern California (Viterbi)</p></li>
<li><p>California Institute of Technology</p></li>
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<p>it's the grad ranking and it's ********</p>

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<p>What is the usually acceptance rate for graduate school ? Also, does Caltech ever receive any hurricanes?</p>

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<p>These rankings are based on US New's criteria, which are posted on their site. It's a COMPOSITE ranking, made up of many criterias with varying weights. It's a good place to start and contains a lot of useful info. However you may or may not place the same weight on the criterias US News has chosen for their rankings. Fortunately, if you have a subscription to their online version, you can sort the ranking by a certain criteria.</p>

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Also, does Caltech ever receive any hurricanes?

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Not nearly enough if you ask me...</p>

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<p>anybody know when the 2007 US NEWS college rankings for undergraduate schools come out??????</p>

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<p>The 2006 online rankings expire August 17, so the new one will come out a couple days before that.</p>

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<p>I know one spot means nothing, but I love to see USC over Cal Tech</p>

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<p>usc over caltech
one of the reasons i dont pay too much attention to these rankings. i think froma purely educational standpoint just about everyone would go to cal tech over usc or purdue. i know i would. but i may be wrong since the us news says they are better</p>

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usc over caltech
one of the reasons i dont pay too much attention to these rankings. i think froma purely educational standpoint just about everyone would go to cal tech over usc or purdue. i know i would. but i may be wrong since the us news says they are better

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<p>I would be surprised if Caltech loses many of its cross-admits to other schools but MIT, Stanford and Berkeley.</p>

<p>The USNEWS ranking gives credit to how many PhD a school produces instead of the quality of the PhDs it produces. So ridiculous.</p>

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<p>While I do believe Caltech is ranked lower than it should, the weight used on the number of PhD's produced is fairly small, about 6.25% of the overall score.</p>