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<blockquote data-quote="sacraig" data-source="post: 1326595" data-attributes="member: 586845"><p>My perspective comes from spending a lot of time in various engineering programs around the country. I got my BS at Illinois, of course. I got a PhD at Texas A&M, and now I work at a Pac-12 school. I can tell you that everywhere I have been and every colleague I know from other schools still considers Illinois to be one of the handful of elite engineering programs.</p><p></p><p>Every one of them also considers Purdue and Michigan to be in that same group, academically-speaking, and that is just as true for the young guys as it is for all of the old profs at these schools. This phenomenon is nothing new. If there is movement in the rankings, that is often just a result of a larger PR effort/expenditure by the relevant school, as the biggest criteria in those rankings is essentially a poll that amounts to a popularity contest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sacraig, post: 1326595, member: 586845"] My perspective comes from spending a lot of time in various engineering programs around the country. I got my BS at Illinois, of course. I got a PhD at Texas A&M, and now I work at a Pac-12 school. I can tell you that everywhere I have been and every colleague I know from other schools still considers Illinois to be one of the handful of elite engineering programs. Every one of them also considers Purdue and Michigan to be in that same group, academically-speaking, and that is just as true for the young guys as it is for all of the old profs at these schools. This phenomenon is nothing new. If there is movement in the rankings, that is often just a result of a larger PR effort/expenditure by the relevant school, as the biggest criteria in those rankings is essentially a poll that amounts to a popularity contest. [/QUOTE]
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