The College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign was first established in 1868,  Engineering at Illinois consistently ranks amongst the top five such engineering colleges in the United States by which American media company that publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis, founded as a newsweekly magazine in 1933?
U.S. News &amp; World Report U.S. News & World Report is an American media company that publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis. Founded as a newsweekly magazine in 1933, U.S. News transitioned to primarily web-based publishing in 2010. U.S. News is best known today for its influential Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings, but it has expanded its content and product offerings in education, health, money, careers, travel, and cars. The rankings are popular in North America but have drawn widespread criticism from colleges, administrations, and students for their dubious, disparate, and arbitrary nature. The ranking system by "U.S. News" is usually contrasted with the "Washington Monthly" and "Forbes" rankings.
Poling System The Poling System was a mathematical rating system used to select college football national championship teams on a current basis from 1935 to 1984 and on a retroactive basis from 1924 to 1934. While there was no official method for naming a national championship in the sport during the system's existence, it is considered to have been a "National Champion Major Selector" by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The system was developed by Richard Poling, a native of Mansfield, Ohio who had played college football at Ohio Wesleyan University. The Poling System named contemporary champions from 1935 to 1984 and retroactively named champions from 1924 to 1934. Its selections were published in the "Football Review Supplement" and several newspapers.