<p>I often wonder just who these posters are on here. slipper1234 has 6,589 posts. Don’t you have a real job? I subscribe to the old adage “opinions are like ***holes, everyone has one”. Rankings smankings. Have you ever looked at the profiles of the professors for a given dept/school you are interested in? I guarantee you will see that the professors attended a wide variety of universities (and not all top ranked in the field they are currently teaching) for their undergraduate educations; and now you want to believe that only they can teach the best because they are at teaching at a top ranked school like MIT, Berkeley or wherever? That is just plain stupid.</p>