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No argument from me…that would be a valid assessment. However, the NAE raw numbers correlate quite strongly with the USNWR undergrad engineering program rankings.</p>
<p>USNews Undergrad Engineering Program Rank, NAE Members, School, Score:
1, 114, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 4.9
2, 92, Stanford University Stanford, CA 4.7
2, 77, University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA 4.7
4, 31, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 4.6
5, 26, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 4.5
5, 29, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL 4.5
7, 25, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 4.3
7, 22, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 4.3
9, 25, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 4.2
9, 18, Purdue University–West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN 4.2
9, 48, University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX 4.2 </p>
<p>UT-Austin is underranked if this is the criteria they’re looking at…</p>