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University rankings are next to useless for determining whether a student would be a good developer. Look at the metrics US News uses to rank universities:

* Research reputation

* # of publications, conferences, books

* # of citations

* # of highly cited papers

Where's quality of teaching? Where's student employability after graduation? Where's numbers of student internships? Where's teacher to student ratio? None of these matter to most university ranking lists.




Actually, US News does seem to measure those things:

Duke student-faculty ratio is 6:1. NC A&T is 18:1.

Duke is #17 in Best Undergraduate Teaching. Seems for NC A&T that info is paywalled.

Duke is #8 in Co-ops/Internships. This might also be paywalled for NC A&T.

Duke acceptance rate is 9%. NC A&T is 61%.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/duke-university-2920/ov...

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/north-carolina-at-2905/...


I'm pretty deep in the college admissions and rankings world. You are not looking into the methodologies closely here. US News is a far cry from relevancy.

To teaching:

> The Best Undergraduate Teaching rankings are based solely on the responses to this separate section of the 2019 peer assessment survey.

So you have a bunch of high up academic deans being asked to rank teaching at hundreds of schools. This just boils down to name brand and is not a representation of teaching quality.

Same goes for the methodology for co-op's/internships if you read up there. It's all a self fulfilling prophecy of prestige.

Class size, yeah that's a real metric, but there are a decent deal of large schools with known CS programs with large classes near that 18:1 - why haven't those been eliminated from recruiting?

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-michigan-...


You left out a ton of metrics they use for school rankings, Iā€™m guessing because those would have hurt your argument tremendously.




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