Fallacious thinking: NTU Engineering is "better" than NUS

I was browsing through Reddit and someone asked the differences between the Engineering schools in NUS and NTU. And it seems that the usual and frequently used response is NTU Engineering is far superior to NUS, often without any solid substantiation.

I'm always skeptical of this claim. So in what way is NTU Engineering superior? Rankings? Quality of research? Teaching quality? Ask any NTU Engineering student on why and they will start to stutter and attempt to change the subject. To me, it's simply a baseless rhetoric to make NTU Engineering students who failed to gain entry into NUS to feel slightly better.

During my NS, I have a unit OC who was from NUS EE too and I asked him about this. He too found this claim foolish and laughed it off. Strong claims require strong evidences and he pointed out that the consistent superiority NUS has in terms of cut-off points and subject ranking compared to NTU. Facts don't lie. 

As what our future PM says: Every school is a good school. Perhaps NTU students should stop comparing which school is superior and instead focus on continuous improvement.

Cheers.