<p>^i woudl admit that northwestern is better than rice for engineering in an overall sense, but the point i was making is that they both are different from the other engineering elites i have listed, which most will concur (and this link supports it).</p>
<p>[ARWU</a> FIELD 2010 Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences](<a href=“http://www.arwu.org/FieldENG2010.jsp]ARWU”>http://www.arwu.org/FieldENG2010.jsp)</p>