<p>It is easy to pay too much attention to these rankings. It is hard to imagine that it makes any difference at all which top 10 (?20, ?50) engineering school a student attends. There is virtually no evidence that professional outcome is related to which college a student attended, after controlling for student academic properties at entrance for colleges overall. It is even harder to believe that it matters for a field as standardized as engineering.</p>
<p>So, even if the rankings were perfectly reliable, they would not mean anything.</p>