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They must have used SOME objective measure, because otherwise how would Berkeley and Stanford go from top-6 to barely top-25 in two years?
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Do universities change that quickly? The measure changed, of course, and I defy you to tell me what changed that would move Oxford and Cambridge up, a bunch of US schools down a bit and others (that are roughly comparable to the ones that moved just a bit except for their West Coast location) much more.
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(The Ivy League has no trouble acknowledging the existence and quality of Berkeley and Stanford. It has a lot more trouble with WashU or Northwestern.)
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Agreed with the point about the midwestern u's, with some exceptions: Kellogg for NU, Med for Wash. U. But how non-Ivy League schools as a whole are viewed is really, really suspect. Stanford has the greatest breadth of quality across the widest spectrum of universities full-stop, IMO. Same for Berkeley, particularly at graduate level.