<p>^^^Alexander, as im sure you know there is more to good colleges than USNWR rankings. there are plenty of people with more authority on the subject than any of us here that would disagree with ranking MIT higher than Penn for poli sci. i once listened to a stanford professor of poli sci that praised penn’s dept and faculty (always stating that stanford’s was superior to it but still). in any case, those rankings are a bit old and penn’s poli sci has much improved in the last years. </p>
<p>id say HYP closely followed by Penn and Columbia for poli sci
(that or i made the worst mistake ever choosing penn over stanford for poli sci/ir)</p>
<p>cornell for architecture/engineering/hotel and their other weird programs</p>
<p>penn the absolute best for business and good for econ/history/languages/humanities/IR …</p>
<p>harvard for everything except engineering</p>
<p>yale/princeton good all around (not sure about yale engineering)</p>
<p>i have no idea what dartmouth or brown are good at, and am obviously a bit biased toward penn and harvard</p>