Why isn't USC a "CC Top University"?

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[Rankings</a> — UC Berkeley College of Engineering](<a href=“http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/about/rankings.html]Rankings”>http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/about/rankings.html)

2009 Graduate Rankings

UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering has placed third among the top schools nationwide, following MIT and Stanford. The 2009 U.S. News & World Report graduate rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinion about program quality and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school’s faculty, research, and students.

2009 Top 10 Engineering Schools - Graduate
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Stanford University
3 University of California, Berkeley<br>
4 Georgia Institute of Technology
5 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
6 California Institute of Technology
7 Carnegie Mellon University
**8 University of Southern California **
9 Cornell University
9 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor