Indeed. If you live in States, you will easily know Uof Florida is way below this top 20 list, but Austin and Champaign definitely should be there. US News ranking is often to be influenced by non-academy reasons which is pretty common for all other ranking systems too. So just pure reference for casual viewers when you see those rankings! Of course, most of the schools on this list are still reasonable, though UC system is a bit overrated somehow if they are not the top 2-3 schools in UC system. For example, except berkeley and UCLA, what else UC system schools can compete with Austin?