>>11355542all the rankings are kind of bullshit, but US news is unironically the least bullshit. post a ranking you think is better and i will show you something completely retarded in it.
US News actually sticks some things like "survey of experts' opinions" or "reviews by peer institutions" into their methodology instead of only relying on statistics of faculty publications or student job outcomes. and it fixes the pathologies. for instance US News never ranks places like UC Davis and UC San Diego super high, but they are so big publishing lots of meh-tier research and have lots of professional schools churning out wealthy but meh professionals that it skews them into looking actually good. when in reality everyone in california knows that e.g. USC is a better school than either of those two
