<p>U.s. News is highly criticized by college presidents because of their gimmicky criteria. There patterns don’t change over the years. You can google “best engineering schools” & look for sites that do rankings by peer review. Above all, selecting an engineering school means examining how thick their curricula book is-if they don’t have the meat-then there is no muscle on the bone. Any engineering school usually will lead to the same salary & many schools offer the dual-5 yr program or 6 yr med program. Of course you also have to look at what you want as a total out of college education. Some engineering majors may want nothing but science while others might want to take say some history or a language to expand their horizons. So when the magazine ranks engineering schools it may leave out your particular goal if say you wanted also to have some diversity in your course list.</p>