"NOYB" wrote in message
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What's really significant, however, when you're applying for a job in
engineering, is where corporate recruiters rank the schools. Purdue
ranked
3rd according to US News.


See? Now you're making sense. You've explained one source of the rankings,
i.e.: recruiters. Of course, recruiters could simply be happier with certain
schools because they are better at communicating with the recruiters. It may
not reflect the quality of the candidates. But anyway......