Prestige Rankings 仅供参考

Prestige Rankings 仅供参考


http://www.brody.com/college/resources/college_rankings.php

The following “prestige rankings” were compiled by Brody counselors based upon their experiences at schools and counseling applicants, as well as after review of a number of primary and secondary sources. The purpose of the rankings is not to indicate which college is best for you, or even which college would provide you with the best education, but rather to convey to you our beliefs about which colleges are the most prestigious: i.e. which schools garner the most respect, in a general sense, from employers, graduate schools, and the American public.

We realize the myriad flaws inherent in any such ranking system, but we feel that too often applicants operate in a vacuum concerning the relative reputations of schools. This vacuum is inevitably filled by local prejudices, more broad rankings systems with more serious flaws, and random circumstance. With our rankings in hand, we hope applicants can go to schools knowing generally how they stack up against each other in terms of prestige. Other factors such as weather, specific programs, “vibe”, resources, etc. they can (and should) discover for themselves or with personalized professional guidance.

Colleges that did not make our list inevitably defy the type of nationwide analysis done here, and should be judged by local standards and specific major/program details.
And, of course, a few caveats.

　　Faced with the task of comparing liberal arts colleges to universities, we decided—despite the difficulties—that the project called for a complete, unified rankings list. The result was that smaller liberal arts colleges, despite sometimes superior prestige within elite circles, sometimes fared worse in the general calculations (and particularly so for such lesser-known schools). When faced with schools A and B, where school A was much better known and more highly regarded by the public but both schools we felt were equally respected by, say, law schools luating applicants, we gave a slight edge to school A.

　　Generally we ignored the superior reputation of one program within a school (e.g. Wharton within Penn.). For science and engineering undergraduate programs in schools known almost exclusively for such degrees, however, we attempted to fit the schools within our rankings, with only limited success. No engineering-minded high school senior should reasonably decide whether to attend, say, Cal Tech based in any major part upon its comparison below with, say, more liberal-arts minded Harvard or Swarthmore.
　These rankings are subjective! No one can rank colleges with any degree of certainty. We use this list primarily because we think it’s the best one we have and serves a valuable purpose.

Our rankings of the top 50 colleges by prestige:
1. Harvard
2. Princeton
3. Yale
4. Stanford
5. Dartmouth
6. MIT
7. Amherst
8. Williams
9. Columbia University
10. California Institute of Technology
11. Brown
12. Duke
13. University of Pennsylvania
14. University of Chicago
15. Swarthmore
16. Northwestern University
17. Cornell University
18. Johns Hopkins
19. University of California-Berkeley
20. Bowdoin
21. Georgetown
22. Harvey Mudd
23. University of Michigan
24. Wellesley
25. Washington University of St. Louis
26. NYU
27. Notre Dame
28. Carleton
29. UCLA
30. Claremont McKenna
31. University of Virginia
32. Pomona
33. Middlebury
34. Vassar
35. Colgate
36. University of Wisconsin-Madison
37. University of North Carolina
38. William and Mary
39. Vanderbilt
40. Bates
41. Emory
42. Smith
43. Wesleyan
44. Davidson4
45. Grinnell
46. Rice
47. Colby
48. University of Texas-Austin
49. University of Southern California
50. Tufts