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 nostr:npub1x4vqygunvf5eeawjyw6ugmeqgzs3r765cmr7ey90wr9hr300ng8sm5jd26 nostr:npub1y6vdaj364w37g40r42f8apzjjxfzulnepyf4llpthmguqffg302svdqwnv nostr:npub1utxlhfuc3kz9wkjhec7drfxvk805qvyvn58tk6pypczp856gsc8sh5lwpc nostr:npub1phpqxa6g888f6vrquzwxlx22s8qyext66v96gtexzmn083m772sq9m6l98 nostr:npub1tdsdk6l08hvq9q7737gm42c3fyq5xgqmy4lpvmda5hqaemhkhhzqz6djq2 nostr:npub1zr96hdzup9h0p5lh0urk8y79sjca48hnr7u3spfaqcytm62grytsypuu4j Number of universities in the US is large, so some of them are going to be ranked highly.

That said, these rankings are kind of a farce. Rochester Institute of Technology being top 800 is kinda low, but I'm biased (that university *only* churns out Image Scientists, but it churns out very good ones). Similarly, UC Boulder is ranked *very* low for what it is. Also, Rensselaer Polytechnic not even top 200? Pomona not even being ranked? All of these are solid universities that have pumped out solid professionals - they have great reputations.

Meanwhile, the top 10 are rounded out by Stanford? Harvard? Princeton? Yale? Diploma mills for the rich. MIT and CIT? Insane burnout schools that teach nothing.

Vanderbilt being top 100 is a joke - it's a suicide mill. Purdue ranks similarly, and it's math department is an international joke (although maybe the chemistry department may be why it ranks so well...).