I am faculty in a department that ranks #80th on csrankings but >200 in US news ranking. Strikingly is also the poor correlation between US news rankings and C

I am faculty in a department that ranks #80th on csrankings but >200 in US news ranking. Strikingly is also the poor correlation between US news rankings and CSrankings. I emailed with the owner of CSrankings who told me: For the top 50 US News schools, the correlation with CSRankings (Spearman's rho) is 0.77 (p-value = 3e-11). The correlation drops the further one gets from the top-ranked schools. For the top 25-50 (same exclusion criteria), the correlation drops to 0.44 (p-value = 0.025). For ranks 40-50, there is effectively no correlation: 0.12, p-value = 0.75 US news rankings of CS departments is entirely based on reputation, which really puts certain CS departments that do good research at a disadvantage regarding student recruitment.