Right, as the methodology favors HYP over S.
But, that begs the question: is/was the methodology tweaked to ensure HYP rules the roost?
When the rankings first came out in 1983, Stanford was #1 for three straight years, but quickly dropped to #6. It did get back to #2 in '91, but has been struggling to get back there ever since.
Also back in '83, Michigan and Illinois were top 10 and ranked higher than MIT.
Cal Berkeley was #5, and then dropped into the 20’s three years later.
There was some interesting methodology tweaking going on in Year 4 of the report: Yale, Princeton, Caltech, Harvard were the top 4. The above publics were no where to be seen. But, tweak again, so Caltech drops to 5 in Year 5 and HYP assumes its rightly place in the world with young whipper-snapper Stanford at #6.
(A cynic would say such a ranking is much better to sell magazines to the population centers of the east coast.) 