re: Ranking the SEC schools academically?

I don't get why anybody would care about this. Vandy is clearly #1 and after that... well if you're #2 vs. #3, does anybody really care? Should they? And I'm not even sure about #1: How many smart engineers does Vandy produce, for example? I've never met one, and I think I would have if they existed.

Likewise Georgia is clearly a good school, but I know exactly 0 engineer graduates from Georgia. But I know plenty of very smart, very sharp engineers from LSU, which ranks low on any list I've seen. So what does any list mean? To me it is apples and USB thumb drives.