<p>1 is wrong because its sampling is inaccurate and it’s heavily in favor of Northeast universities; 2 is wrong because it includes a very limited number of professional schools that it considers “prestigious”; 3 is wrong for reasons widely debated; 4 is completely wrong because it uses many statistical measures that are just wrong or stupid, like membership in Who’s Who. And how did you measure “general prestige in common conversation”?</p>
<p>In other words, this is a bunch of junk rankings consolidated into one junk ranking.</p>