Rank is irrelevant and ASU is well known for space physics and Barrett is a top 3 honors.
The campuses are vastly different. He will be there four years.
Outcome wise they are likely the same. They are three large flagships.
U.S. News ranking methodology is crap but it sells magazines.
These three schools are substitutional - not in admission chances but in reality.
UMD is an alternative admission but not a huge deal.
U of Arizona - still can apply - would be stronger than all for Physics - but what’s that mean ?
He’ll get the same job or into the same grad school out of all these.