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So UC-Berkeley is a better engineering school that Cal Tech? Really?
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The engineering ranking only looks at peer assessment, which Berkeley always scores high in. If you look at overall rankings, Berkeley's peer assessment is 4.8, but it's overall ranking is around 20 or so. If the overall rankings only use peer assessment like the engineering ranking, then Berkeley would be above Penn, Duke, Caltech, Columbia, Chicago, and almost every other school.
Berkeley's overall peer assessment beats Caltech's by an even greater margin than the engineering ranking, but Caltech has always ranked above Berkeley overall. The USNWR engineering ranking uses a methodology very favorable to Berkeley. It doesn't mean Berkeley engineering is better.