每年九月中,正当同学们都在为美国名校本科Early Action, Early Decision做选择和最后冲刺的时候,US News就会公布自己新一年的全美大学排名。在之前的文章中,我们就提到过,US News的排名注重各大美国名校针对本科阶段的教育水平和资源,因此是美国名校本科申请人选校时最好的排名参考。那么新的一年的US News排名如何呢? 请看下表和我们对于前30名校的排名点评。
University | 2018 | 2017 | VS. 2017 |
---|---|---|---|
Princeton University | 1 | 1 | Unchanged |
Harvard University | 2 | 2 | Unchanged |
University of Chicago | 3 | 3 | Unchanged |
Yale University | 3 | 3 | Unchanged |
Columbia University | 5 | 5 | Unchanged |
MIT | 5 | 7 | +2 |
Stanford University | 5 | 5 | Unchanged |
University of Pennsylvania | 8 | 8 | Unchanged |
Duke University | 9 | 8 | -1 |
California Institute of Technology | 10 | 12 | +2 |
Dartmouth College | 11 | 10 | -1 |
Johns Hopkins University | 11 | 10 | -1 |
Northwestern University | 11 | 12 | +1 |
Brown University | 14 | 14 | Unchanged |
Cornell University | 14 | 15 | +1 |
Rice University | 14 | 15 | +1 |
Vanderbilt University | 14 | 15 | +1 |
University of Notre Dame | 18 | 15 | -3 |
Washington University in SL | 18 | 19 | +1 |
Georgetown University | 20 | 20 | Unchanged |
Emory University | 21 | 20 | -1 |
UC–Berkeley | 21 | 20 | -1 |
UC–Los Angeles | 21 | 24 | +3 |
University of Southern California | 21 | 23 | +2 |
Carnegie Mellon University | 25 | 24 | -1 |
University of Virginia | 25 | 24 | -1 |
Wake Forest University | 27 | 27 | Unchanged |
University of Michigan | 28 | 27 | -1 |
Tufts University | 29 | 27 | -2 |
New York University | 30 | 36 | +6 |
University of North Carolina | 30 | 30 | Unchanged |
Georgia Institute of Technology | 34 | 34 | Unchanged |
University of Rochester | 34 | 32 | -2 |
Boston University | 37 | 39 | +2 |
Case Western Reserve University | 37 | 37 | Unchanged |
UC–Santa Barbara | 37 | 37 | Unchanged |
Northeastern University | 40 | 39 | -1 |
Tulane University | 40 | 39 | -1 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 42 | 39 | -3 |
UC–Irvine | 42 | 39 | -3 |
UC–San Diego | 42 | 44 | +2 |
University of Florida | 42 | 50 | +8 |
Lehigh University | 46 | 44 | -2 |
Pepperdine University | 46 | 50 | +4 |
UC–Davis | 46 | 44 | -2 |
University of Miami | 46 | 51 | +5 |
University of Wisconsin–Madison | 46 | 44 | -2 |
Villanova University | 46 | 46 | Unchanged |
51UStudy Comments
1. 前10名非常稳定。当中,MIT从第7上升到第5位,但是对于MIT来说,US News的排名意义并不大,自己在STEM教育方面的优势远远不是一个排名可以表现出来的,同理适用于再次杀入前10的Caltech (Sheldon难道会在乎US News这种平凡的人类做出的排名吗?) 另外Duke的排名小降一名,和宾大之间的8/9名之争看来是要继续下去了。
2. Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern分享了11名。这也很能体现出这三个学校的地位,Top 10之外最好的学校。
3. 从14名开始到20名一直是最近几年US News竞争最激烈,看点最多的地方之一。在去年的排名当中,Cornell, Rice, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame共同占据了Brown之后的15名。而今年,Brown, Cornell, Rice, Vanderbilt则一起分享了第14名,把Notre Dame挤到了第18名和Washington University in. St. Louis并列。这几个学校看上去排名接近,但是申请方面则差异很大,提醒大家在选校时一定要理性,不要把排名作为唯一的参考标准。
4. 20名的守门人是Georgetown University,去年和它并列的Emory和Berkeley各自下降了1名。之后出现了一个相当大的变化,洛杉矶的两所名校UCLA和USC都上升到了21名。特别是UCLA,在似乎永远比Berkeley矮一头的情况下居然和大哥平起平坐了。
5. 前30当中最大的赢家 – New York University – 从2年前和US News翻脸被取消Business School排名,到如今一年上升6位正式进入前30 – NYU的心情一定是复杂的。这所纽约第二校值得这样的排名。