Agreed, of course!
Any attempt to find “measurable” differences between the nation’s top universities, then assign those differences arbitrary weights, and to use the resulting “number” to rank them to whatever decimal point is pseudo math – and the resulting “order” entirely meaningless.
We might as well throw in the zip code as a tie-breaker.
Unless SOME school ranks the best in every single imaginable criteria, and is undisputed #1 - all these lists are just annual click-bait.
So, does anyone REALLY think Harvard, Columbia, etc. will see a significant drop in enrollment next year, because it’s no longer ranked among the “Top 10” in one list, or the other.