@Laerai Don’t take this the wrong way but I seriously am unsure how you are basing your tiers. I always thought tier 1 was top 25 and tier 2 was 26-50. By your standards, wouldn’t most of the pretty decent engineering schools (Not great but good ones) be like tier 6 or 7? Are you basing it every 15? so 1-15 is tier 1, 15-30 tier 2, 30-45 tier 3? I don’t really understand how you can categorize like that, what are your criteria?
I guess a good follow up question would be how do you feel about each tier, so is tier 2 still top notch programs in your system, or would you only find that in the top 10 or 15 schools nationwide?