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-...