<p>*What makes you think that US News report rankings of Engg colleges are BS? Do you have engineers in your family/friends/teachers to guide you otherwise? *</p>
<p>I can’t speak for the OP, but the truth is that those rankings are somewhat meaningless for most prospective eng’g students. </p>
<p>We see kids falling over themselves looking for Top 10 eng’g schools as if that’s really meaningful. </p>
<p>This country has 50 states. 10 schools cannot even begin to provide enough eng’rs. They’re providing a drop in the bucket. </p>
<p>And when the focus is on “top ranked programs” it ignores the obvious fact that there are over 100 very good programs. The state of Calif has over 25 very good eng’g programs alone…and then there’s the other 49 states! </p>
<p>Nearly every state has a few very good programs. </p>
<p>Plus, when people look at rankings, they think it’s a strict ranking of how good the program is in the classroom…but it’s not. </p>
<p>So, that’s why the rankings are somewhat worthless.</p>