<p>We all know that MIT ranked #1 overall in graduate ranking: <a href=“http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/usnews-0406.html[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/usnews-0406.html</a></p>
<p>My question is who are in #2 to #10?</p>
<p>I don’t think that they mean there’s a general “graduate school” ranking – they just mean that MIT took top honors in several disciplines.</p>
<p>A general graduate school ranking would be quite useless, as the strength of a school as a whole is much less important than the strength of the program in which you intend to do your graduate work.</p>
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<p>I don’t think that the article says that MIT is ranked #1 overall in graduate rankings. While I agree that the wording is ambiguous, I interpret the article to say that MIT is ranked #1 in SOME of the USNews graduate rankings - notably in engineering, Economics, etc. - but not #1 overall, because there is no overall graduate rankings. </p>
<p>It’s like how the Golden Globes give out 2 awards for Best Motion Picture, one for Best Musical/Comedy, the other for Drama. Brokeback Mountain won for Drama, and Walk the Line won for Musical/Comedy. Both movies can claim to have won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture. But that doesn’t mean that the Golden Globes are saying that Brokeback Mountain is necessarily better than Walk the Line, or vice versa.</p>
<p>I get it now; thanks!</p>