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2009 The Most Valuable University of American Ranking

Friday, June 19th, 2009

2009 The Most Valuable University Rank of American?Detail

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1 Harvard University哈佛大学
2 Princeton University普林斯顿大学
3 Yale University耶鲁大学
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology麻省理工学院
5 Stanford University斯坦福大学
6 California Institute of Technology加州理工学院
7 Dartmouth College达特茅斯学院
8 Columbia University,The School of General Studies哥伦比亚大学
9 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校
10 Rice University莱斯大学
11 University of Pennsylvania宾夕法尼亚大学
12 Duke University杜克大学
13 The University of Chicago芝加哥大学
14 Vanderbilt University范德堡大学
15 SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry美国纽约州立大学环境科学与林业科学学院
16 University of Virginia弗吉尼亚大学
17 Brown University布朗大学
18 Emory University埃默里大学
19 Johns Hopkins University约翰霍普金斯大学
20 Northwestern University西北大学
21 University of Notre Dame圣母大学
22 Washington University in St Louis圣路易斯华盛顿大学
23 North Carolina State University,Raleigh北卡罗来纳州立大学
24 Cornell University康乃尔大学
25 Case Western Reserve University华盛顿天主教大学
26 University of Rochester罗切斯特大学
27 Lehigh University利哈伊大学
28 Tufts University塔夫斯大学
29 Brandeis University布兰迪斯大学
30 Wake Forest University维克森林大学
31 Carnegie Mellon University卡内基美隆大学
32 Georgetown University乔治城大学
33 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute伦斯勒理工学院
34 Texas A&M University德州A&M大学
35 Howard University霍华德大学
36 University of Southern California南加州大学
37 Pepperdine University佩珀代因大学
38 Boston College波士顿学院
39 University of Pittsburgh匹兹堡大学
40 Clark University克拉克大学
41 Yeshiva University叶史瓦大学
42 University of Minnesota Twin Cities明尼苏达大学Twin Cities分校
43 University of the Pacific太平洋大学
44 Tulane University杜兰大学
45 Syracuse University雪城大学
46 University of Miami迈阿密大学
47 Georgia Institute of Technology佐治亚理工学院
48 University of California Berkeley加州大学伯克利分校
49 Loyola University Chicago芝加哥洛约拉大学
50 Worcester Polytechnic Institute伍斯特理工学院

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Harvard University

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is also the first and oldest corporation in North America. Harvard University is made up of ten schools.

Initially called “New College” or “the college at New Towne”, the institution was renamed Harvard College on March 13, 1639. It was named after a young clergyman named John Harvard, who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and ?779 (which was half of his estate). The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a “university” occurs in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.

During his 40-year tenure as Harvard president (1869–1909), Charles William Eliot radically transformed Harvard into the pattern of the modern research university. Eliot’s reforms included elective courses, small classes, and entrance examinations. The Harvard model influenced American education nationally, at both college and secondary levels.

Harvard is consistently ranked at or near the top of international college and university rankings, and has the second-largest financial endowment of any non-profit organization (behind the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), standing at $28.8 billion as of 2008. Harvard and Yale have been rivals in academics, rowing, and football for most of their history, competing annually in The Game and the Harvard-Yale Regatta. (more…)

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American University

Friday, June 19th, 2009

American University (AU) is a private United Methodist-affiliated research university in Washington, D.C., USA, the main campus of which comes to a corner at the intersection of Nebraska and Massachusetts Avenues at Ward Circle, straddling the Spring Valley, Wesley Heights, and American University Park neighborhoods of Northwest. Roughly 6,000 undergraduate students and 2,000 graduate students are currently enrolled. Though there is sometimes confusion, American University is separate from most “American Universities” around the world.

It is served by the Tenleytown-AU station on the Washington Metro subway line, which is located roughly one mile from the main campus in the neighborhood of Tenleytown. AU is a member of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, allowing students to enroll in courses offered by other member institutions and students at other member institutions to enroll in courses at AU. A member of the Division I Patriot League, its sports teams compete as the American University Eagles. (more…)

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Carnegie Mellon University

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU or simply Carnegie Mellon) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since its inception, Carnegie Mellon has grown into a world-renowned institution, with numerous programs that are frequently ranked among the best in the world. In the most recent release of the Top 200 World Universities by Times Higher Education, Carnegie Mellon was ranked 21st overall and 6th in technology. In the 2009 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked Carnegie Mellon’s undergraduate program 22nd in the nation amongst national research universities, and in the 2010 edition its graduate programs in Computer Science 4th, Engineering 6th, Business 15th, Public Affairs 10th, Fine Arts 7th, and Psychology 17th.

The university attracts students from all 50 U.S. states and 93 countries and was named one of the “New Ivies” by Newsweek in 2006. Peer institutions of Carnegie Mellon include Caltech, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Georgia Tech, MIT, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, RPI, Stanford, Penn and Washington University. Carnegie Mellon is affiliated with at least 15 Nobel laureates.

The university began as the Carnegie Technical Schools, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school became Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. The University’s 140-acre (0.57 km2) main campus is 3 miles (4.8 km) from Downtown Pittsburgh and abuts the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the city’s Oakland neighborhood.

Carnegie Mellon has seven colleges and schools: the Carnegie Institute of Technology (engineering), the College of Fine Arts, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Mellon College of Science, the Tepper School of Business, the School of Computer Science, and the H. John Heinz III College. (more…)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities and is also a sea-grant and space-grant university.

Founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the university adopted the German university model and emphasized laboratory instruction from an early date. Its current 168-acre (68.0 ha) campus opened in 1916 and extends over 1 mile (1.6 km) along the northern bank of the Charles River basin. MIT researchers were involved in efforts to develop computers, radar, and inertial guidance in connection with defense research during World War II and the Cold War. In the past 60 years, MIT’s educational programs have expanded beyond the physical sciences and engineering into social sciences like economics, philosophy, linguistics, political science, and management.

MIT enrolled 4,172 undergraduates, 6,048 postgraduate students, and employed 1,008 faculty members in the 2007/08 school year. Its endowment and annual research expenditures are among the largest of any American university. 73 Nobel Laureates, 47 National Medal of Science recipients, and 31 MacArthur Fellows are currently or have previously been affiliated with the university.

The Engineers sponsor 33 sports, most of which compete in the NCAA Division III’s New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference; the Division I rowing programs compete as part of the EARC and EAWRC. While students’ irreverence is widely acknowledged due to the traditions of constructing elaborate pranks and engaging in esoteric activities, the aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT affiliates would make it the seventeenth largest economy in the world. (more…)

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Peking University

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Peking University (traditional Chinese: 北京大學; simplified Chinese: 北京大学; pinyin: Běijīng Dàxué), colloquially known in Chinese as Beida (北大, Běidà), is a major research university located in Beijing, China. It is the first formally established modern research university, and the first national university of China. It was founded as Imperial Capital University in 1898 as a replacement of the ancient Guozijian (國子監-国子监 guózǐjiàn). By 1920 it had become a center for progressive thought. Today, most national and international rankings frequently place Peking University as one of the best universities in China.In addition to its academics, Peking University is especially renowned for the beauty of its traditional Chinese architecture at its campus grounds.

Throughout its history, the university has distinguished itself from its peers in terms of intellectual freedom and has produced and hosted many of modern China’s top thinkers, including Lu Xun, Mao Zedong, Hu Shih, Li Dazhao, Gu Hongming, and Chen Duxiu. The Peking University was among the birth places for China’s New Culture Movement, May Fourth Movement and many other significant events.

Peking University
北京大学
Established: 1898
Type: National
President: Zhou Qifeng (周其凤)
Faculty: 4,206
Undergraduates: 15,128
Postgraduates: 15,039
Location: Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Campus: Urban, 273 ha
Former names: Imperial Capital University
Nickname: 北大, Běidà
Affiliations: IARU, AEARU, APRU, BESETOHA
Website: www.pku.edu.cn

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Stanford University

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States.

Stanford was founded in 1885 by former California governor and senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, as a memorial to their son Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid in Europe a few weeks before his 16th birthday. The Stanfords used their farm lands to establish the university hoping to create a large institution in California.

Stanford enrolls about 6,700 undergraduate and about 8,000 graduate students from the United States and around the world every year. The university is divided into a number of schools such as the Stanford Business School, Stanford Law School, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford School of Engineering, etc.

The university is in Silicon Valley, and its alumni have founded companies like Nike, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics and Google.

Stanford University
Motto: Die Luft der Freiheit weht
(German)
Motto in English: The wind of freedom blows
Established: 1885
Type: Private
Endowment: $17.2 billion
President: John L. Hennessy
Provost: John Etchemendy
Faculty: 1,807
Students: 14,945
Undergraduates: 6,759
Postgraduates: 8,186
Location: Stanford, CA, U.S.
Campus: Suburban, 8,180 acres (33.1 km2)[6]
Athletic nickname: Stanford Cardinal
Colors: Cardinal red and white
Mascot: The color Cardinal red (official), Stanford Tree (unofficial)
Athletics: NCAA Division I (FBS) Pac-10
Website: www.stanford.edu

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University of Oxford

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University, or simply Oxford), located in the City of Oxford, Oxfordshire, Great Britain, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.It is also regarded as one of the world’s leading academic institutions. The name is sometimes abbreviated as Oxon. in post-nominals (from the Latin Oxoniensis), although Oxf is sometimes used in official publications. The University has 38 independent colleges, and 6 permanent private halls.

The university traces its roots back to at least 1167, although the exact date of foundation remains unclear, and there is evidence of teaching there as far back as the 10th century. After a dispute between students and townsfolk broke out in 1209, some of the academics at Oxford fled north-east to the town of Cambridge, where the University of Cambridge was founded. The two universities (collectively known as ‘Oxbridge’) have since had a long history of competition with each other. (more…)

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University of Cambridge

Friday, June 5th, 2009

The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the fourth oldest university in the world. The name is sometimes abbreviated as Cantab. in post-nominals, a shortened form of Cantabrigiensis (an adjective derived from Cantabrigia, the Latinised form of Cambridge).

The University grew out of an association of scholars in the city of Cambridge that was formed, early records suggest, in 1209 by scholars leaving Oxford after a dispute with local townsfolk there. The universities of Oxford and Cambridge are often jointly referred to as “Oxbridge”. In addition to cultural and practical associations as a historic part of British society, the two universities also have a long history of rivalry with each other.

Academically, Cambridge is consistently ranked in the world’s top 5 universities. It has produced 83 Nobel Laureates to date, more than any other university in the world according to some counts. (more…)

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香港大学成为亚洲最佳大学

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

英国《泰晤士报高等教育特刊》12日将公布首次独立进行的亚洲100所最佳大学排名榜。香港三间大学跻身前4位，香港大学成为亚洲“一哥”，而日本则成为“大赢家”，共有四所大学位列前10名。

《泰晤士报高等教育特刊》自2004年起，每年公布全球大学排名，今年首次独立评审亚洲的大学，以师生国际化程度、国际级研究实力、教学质素及交流情况等作为评分指标，选出最佳的100所。该刊总监Nunzio Quacquarelli称，香港的大学在各方面表现突出，巩固香港作为教育枢纽的地位。

香港大学成为亚洲“一哥”，其研究及师生国际化均获最佳评分。香港中文大学排第2，香港科技大学排第4，香港城市大学排第18。

香港大学校长徐立之表示，调查结果对香港大学固然值得欣慰，而香港有三间大学列入亚洲五大最佳学府，尤其令人振奋及鼓舞。有港大高层表示，港大排名第一不感惊喜，唯一感到喜悦的是港大排名超越位列第三的东京大学。该名高层认为，研究、教员及学生国际化属港大的强项，令港大跻身排名榜首位。

香港中文大学校长刘遵义认为，教育是长期耕耘，大学的使命是作育英才、创造知识、造福社群，不应着眼于排名。香港科技大学首席副校长钱大康对香港多所大学跻身排名榜感到高兴，但他说：“切勿认为打入排名榜是天下无敌。”他认为调查机构各有计算排名榜的方法，导致排名榜欠准确。

有香港城市大学高层认为，城大在教学及研究方面仍要继续努力。城大发言人则说，对于香港多所大学在亚洲大学排名中名列前茅倍感振奋，认为这是香港作为区内教育枢纽雄厚实力的又一明证。

北大排名第10 清华仅列第15位

全球领先的职业与教育网络机构QS公司(Quacquarelli Symonds)昨日首次公布亚洲最佳200所大学排行榜，在亚洲最佳的前10所大学中，香港的大学占了3所，其中香港大学名列榜首，香港中文大学排名第2，香港科技大学排名第4。

另外日本的东京大学和京都大学分别排名第3及第5。中国北京大学排名第10位，清华大学排第15位，共有38所中国内地大学上榜。

评判标准和全球排行榜不同

比佐扎罗指出，考虑到亚洲各地不同国情和授课语言，亚洲大学排行榜的评分标准和全球榜的评分标准有些不同。

全球大学排行榜的评分标准包括研究质量、教学质量、毕业生就业率和国际视野。亚洲大学排行榜的评分标准则加入了其他元素，比如考虑大学所撰写的研究报告总数，还有为学生提供多少外国交流机会等。

比佐扎罗说：“这就解释了为何香港大学在亚洲榜上排第一，而在全球榜上落后于东京大学。”

QS研究负责人索特补充说：“这些区域排名的优点在于，当我们对某一地区的大学进行比较，而不是从全球的层面比较时，我们可通过囊括更多因素来更全面地描述对比结果。”

索特说：“经过调整的评分标准对排行榜成绩起了一定的影响，北京大学在去年公布的QS全球最佳200所大学排行榜中，排名第50，在亚洲大学当中排名第10；清华大学的全球排名为第56名，在亚洲大学当中排名第15。”

专家分析 这个排名对升学选择具有指导意义

启德留学亚洲部负责人王楠表示，这个排名在一定程度上体现了亚洲各高校综合情况，以及亚洲各国家和地区的教育质量。从排名看，中国香港和日韩的教学质量突出，特别是香港，以其经济发展带动高等教育的质量。

这一排名在中国学生升学选择上是具有一定指导意义的。

亚洲十佳大学 排名大学 学费

1香港大学约10万港元/年(约合8.8万人民币)

2香港中文大学约8万港元/年(约合7万人民币)

3东京大学约80万日元/年(约合5.6万人民币)

4香港科技大学约8万港元/年(约合7万人民币)

5京都大学约60万日元/年(约合4.2万人民币)

6大阪大学约53万日元/年(约合3.7万人民币)

7韩国科学技术院几乎所有学生都有奖学金，无需缴学费

8首尔国立大学约400万韩元/年(约合2.2万人民币)

9东京工业大学约54万日元/年(约合3.8万人民币)

10新加坡国立大学约1.8万新元/年(约合8.4万人民币)10北京大学约5000人民币/年

中国内地入选前百名的大学排名

15清华大学

24中国科学技术大学

26复旦大学

27南京大学

29上海交通大学

32浙江大学

70天津大学

75西安交通大学

94同济大学

95东南大学

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