<p>Here you go again using rankings (or better yet anything that implies Emory isn’t good). The person wants to know about “our” environmental studies dept because they obviously have some interest in Emory. Now all they know is that it doesn’t make this publication’s top 10 (due to it not making a top 10 list, I guess it’s no good at all for you, huh). Thanks, that really helped the person learn a lot more about Emory. How about rendering an opinion based on a class, if you’ve taken any in the dept. That would be more useful. I know you’re trying to be “objective”, but if they want current students’ (or anyone here w/experience) opinion on the dept., a publication that doesn’t even mention Emory doesn’t help.</p>