My oldest son and his wife of 2 weeks tomorrow are both graduates of CMC (’05 and ‘08). It’s a terrific school!
I also have a son who graduated from Boston College at #16 but my 3rd son just graduated from Duke. There’s something very wrong with the methodology if Duke is #104. Give me a break. My daughter is at UNC Chapel Hill which is #7 among publics but #1 in Basketball! haha! Sorry! couldn’t’ resist! ;-)
I think it looks at things like student satisfaction and indebtedness after graduation. As a balance to USNWR, that doesn’t really take that into account.