Any thoughts on these rankings? http://www.graduateprograms.com/engineering-school-rankings-2014/
1 The University of Alabama at Birmingham 9.20
2 Rice University 9.04
3 University of Georgia 8.93
4 California Institute of Technology 8.88
5 Brown University 8.72
6 The Ohio State University 8.62
7 University of Virginia 8.59
8 University of Wisconsin-Madison 8.44
9 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 8.43
10 University of Florida 8.35
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Yeah, what aspect(s) of school quality correlate(s) with student reviews? It probably correlates well with sports teams, ease of classes, surrounding area, success finding a job, level of hubris in the student body, ease of dealing with the school bureaucracy, etc. Not all of those are desirable or related to the actual quality of the school. It seems silly to me.
Brown is the only school in that list that it wouldn’t occur to me to associate w engineering.
I’m not sure what this ranking is measuring, but I don’t think it is measuring anything of importance to non-students. This reads like “how much we love being a grad student here”, which is of very limited meaning.