<p>U Utah surprises me; IMO it shouldn’t be in the top 100 (and replaced with either an Asian university or a Continental European one).</p>
<p>But the three rankings seem to short-change undergraduate education. Undergraduate educational quality should be given some weight since:</p>
<p>1) Many of those who use the rankings are shopping for undergraduate education</p>
<p>2) Many of those who go to college are not advancing on to graduate school and, for this reason, poor undergraduate quality is going to hurt on the job market (or in grad school for those who do go on to grad school)</p>
<p>My professors, some of which might have contributed to any one of the three, always complain about undergraduate education not being taken into account.</p>