Engineering Rankings Trustworthy?

Takimchi
Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:29:53 +0000

At my current high school, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a school that is recognized as the place everyone gets accepted to. The acceptance rate is ridiculously high for our school (over 95%), so I never gave much thought to UIUC.

But when I was looking at colleges and the rankings for undergraduate engineering programs, I was extremely surprised to see that UIUC was ranked #5.

So my questions are:

Are these ranking systems for undergraduate programs trustworthy enough for me to choose my college-of-choice off of?

And if there are any UIUC graduates or attendees reading this, what did you like and dislike about the institution?

Thanks for taking the time to read this :)