<p>I don't put any real value in the USNews ranking, but I was wondering if there was anything that happened at Rice in the last year to account for it's peer assessment drop?</p>
<p>It seems arbitrary.</p>
<p>what is its new us news peer assessment rank</p>
<p>It's new rank for engineering is 29, I think. It went down from 10. I was actually very suprised by the new rankings, as they changed very drastically for many colleges and universities.</p>