<p>for what it’s worth</p>
<p>brown is placed 5th
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<p>here is their methodology explanation–they try to take into account how satisfied students are with their experience and how well they do in their careers after they graduate
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<p>the only school that seems egregiously out of place to me is MIT, which i suspect gets dinged on the student satisfaction side (it is an amazing place, but most students have a love/hate relationship with it because it is so tough). boston college and southern methodist make out incredibly well, but don’t entirely shock me given the selection criteria and my limited knowledge of those schools. thoughts?</p>