<p>USNews rankings don’t mean anything either. I don’t know why people get so riled up about them. Their methodology is terrible. As their own website says:</p>
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The U.S. News rankings of undergraduate engineering programs accredited by ABET, formerly known as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, are based solely on the peer judgments of deans and senior faculty who rated each program they are familiar with on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished).
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<p>Who cares about peer judgement?</p>