专业排名总平均，代表的是学术地位和学科精度。
S专业最均匀整齐。M， Cal 大部专业全面优秀
所以S，M， Cal 的红，都是实力打底。绝非爆红款 -- 人家已经优秀几十年了。
一些旗舰州大水平相当不俗。也是上学成长很好的平台。(Realistically speaking, schools like Cal, UCLA, Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas are quite undervalued, especially for paying in-state tuition! )
| 上大学，看的是学校/专业的水平，美国名校各专业的平均排名比较 (Data from 2018) | |||||||
| University | Averag Dept Rank | Peer Reputation Rank | USN Rank | ||||
| 2018 | 2018 | 2018 | |||||
| 1 | Stanford | 2.29 | 1 | 5 | |||
| 2 | MIT | 2.55 | 1 | 5 | |||
| 3 | UC Berkeley | 3.47 | 6 | 21 | |||
| 4 | Caltech | 4.43 | 8 | 10 | |||
| 5 | Harvard | 5.71 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 6 | Princeton | 6.08 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 7 | Michigan | 8.87 | 13 | 28 | |||
| 8 | Columbia | 10.46 | 6 | 5 | |||
| 9 | UCLA | 11.14 | 17 | 21 | |||
| 9 | Yale | 11.15 | 5 | 3 | |||
| 11 | Chicago | 11.92 | 8 | 3 | |||
| 12 | Wisconsin | 12.67 | 27 | 46 | |||
| 13 | Cornell | 13 | 8 | 15 | |||
| 14 | UT Austin | 14.33 | 27 | 56 | |||
| 15 | Penn | 17.2 | 12 | 8 | |||
| 16 | Northwestern | 18.07 | 13 | 12 | |||
| 17 | Duke | 20.85 | 13 | 9 | |||
| 18 | Illinois | 20.93 | 32 | 52 | |||
| 19 | Johns Hopkins | 21.21 | 8 | 11 | |||
| 20 | U Washington | 21.93 | 32 | 56 | |||
| 21 | North Carolina | 22.36 | 27 | 30 | |||
| 22 | Minnesota | 23.67 | 39 | 69 | |||
| 23 | UCSD | 26.13 | 36 | 42 | |||
| 24 | NYU | 26.27 | 32 | 30 | |||
| 25 | Ohio State | 26.47 | 36 | 54 | |||
| 26 | Penn State | 26.67 | 39 | 52 | |||
| 27 | Brown | 27 | 13 | 14 | |||
| 28 | Carnegie Mellon | 27.73 | 17 | 25 | |||
| 29 | UC Davis | 27.79 | 32 | 46 | |||
| 30 | Maryland | 28.13 | 44 | 61 | |||
| 31 | Indiana | 29.14 | 44 | 90 | |||
| 32 | Wash U | 30.43 | 23 | 18 | |||
| 33 | Vanderbilt | 31.07 | 21 | 16 | |||
| 34 | Rice | 32.33 | 23 | 14 | |||
| 35 | Virginia | 32.4 | 21 | 25 | |||
