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Nov 1, 2018 at 9:45 comment added Tommi @XanderHenderson Added.
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Oct 31, 2018 at 18:01 comment added Xander Henderson It may also be worth noting that the US News rankings are based around quite a bit more than academics. They also include social factors like sports teams and fraternities, the quantity of alumni donations, access to facilities, and so on. The rankings may, in fact, have very little to do with the actual academic quality of an institution, let alone an individual department within the institution.
Oct 31, 2018 at 16:36 comment added Dave L Renfro +1 for "the quality of mathematics departments (or any other specific departments) need not follow the general rankings" I was thinking this myself, and I thought I wrote a comment earlier today saying this, but apparently I only thought about writing such a comment.
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