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2014年福布斯美国大学排名(America's Top Colleges)最新发布,哈佛耶鲁未入前5
来源:毕达留学    2014年7月30日

2014年福布斯美国大学排名(America's Top Colleges)的冠军是美国顶级文理学院——威廉姆斯学院(Williams College),紧随其后的是斯坦福大学(Stanford University)和斯沃斯莫尔学院(Swarthmore College)。榜单上排名最靠前的常春藤盟校是普林斯顿大学(Princeton University),排名第4。跻身前10的另外两所常春藤盟校分别是:耶鲁大学(Yale University),排名第6,以及哈佛大学(Harvard University),排名第7。其他前10院校还包括:麻省理工学院(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)、波莫纳学院(Pomona College)、美国军事学院(即西点军校,United States Military Academy)和艾姆赫斯特学院(Amherst College)。
 
福布斯美国大学排名(America's Top Colleges)历来被认为是小型、以学生为中心的文理学院(LAC)与大型、设有众多尖端学科、以科研为中心、在科学、技术、工程和数学方面渊源深厚的综合性大学间的一场对决。对于文科与科学、技术、工程和数学(STME)学位间的价值高低问题,存在着旷日持久的争论,而这种争论也在福布斯第七次编制的美国大学排行榜中得到了体现。除此之外,这份榜单还展现了那些顶尖学府胜出的法宝:高学生满意度、高毕业率、高毕业生就业率,以及学生低负债。
 
虽然在排名上精英文理学院和STEM大学不相上下,但它们间的相似性却极为明显:历史、地点、获得的捐款和很低的学生债务水平。大学就像美酒,越久越醇。排名前100的院校,平均历史达到了170年,平均创办年代在1843年。其中最古老的院校是哈佛大学,创建于1636年,其次是威廉玛丽学院(College of William & Mary),创建于1693年,以及耶鲁大学,创建于1701。前100所院校中,最年轻的是布兰迪斯大学(Brandeis University)和斯克利普斯学院(Scripps College),分别创建于1948年和1926年。
 
全美最优秀的大学大部分集中在东北部地区,其次是西海岸,中西部地区较少,该地区排名最靠前的院校是明尼苏达州的卡尔顿学院(Carleton College),排名第16,阳光地带的好学校寥寥无几。在大学获得的总额4474亿美元的捐款中,22所院校占去了一半的份额,其中哈佛大学获得的捐款最多,到目前为止为323亿美元,其次是耶鲁(208亿美元)、得克萨斯大学系统(205亿美元)、斯坦福(187亿美元)和普林斯顿(182亿美元)。
 
在代表学生满意度和学校教学效果的指标中,排名前10的院校拥有最高的学生保有率(高达95%),其中一些院校的4年毕业率是全美最高的:威廉姆斯学院为96%,耶鲁大学和波莫纳学院为89%。榜单上列出的所有院校中,拉玛尔大学(Lamar University)的新生保有率排名倒数第一,只有54%,紧随其后的是田纳西州立大学(Tennessee State University)和莱特州立大学(Wright State University),为56%。
 
顶级院校的花费不菲——它们提供的助学金也同样可观。排名前50的院校中,平均总费用为近59,000美元,它们向近53%的本校学生发放了援助金——只有美国军事学院例外,这所学校免学费。除了含金量很高的学位外,常春藤盟校学生的贷款负担还很低。2013年只有8%的普林斯顿学生办理了贷款,耶鲁为9%,哈佛和斯坦福为11%。全美学生贷款负担最低的是密苏里州的欧扎克斯学院(College of the Ozarks)和纽约市立大学巴鲁克学院(City University of New York, Baruch College),为6%,而在俄勒冈的太平洋大学(Pacific University)和宾夕法尼亚的伊马库雷塔大学(Immaculata University),96%的学生办理了贷款。
 
顶级院校中,很多精英公立大学的学费要比私立大学便宜。在美国的州立大学中,加利福尼亚的排名最高,加州大学伯克利分校排在第37名,其次是弗吉尼亚大学(University of Virginia),排名第40,威廉玛丽学院,排名第41以及密歇根大学安娜堡分校(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor),排名第45。
 
连续第七年,福布斯与位于华盛顿特区的大学学费与效率研究中心(CCAP)开展独家合作。我们的美国650所大学和学院排名与其他榜单不同的是,我们坚决认为“输出”比“输入”重要。我们对学生入学的条件完全不感兴趣。我们的关注点唯有投资回报率:学生从学校得到了什么。我们使用了美国国家教育统计中心(National Center for Education Statistics)和薪酬调查网站PayScale等提供的数据。
 
2014年福布斯美国大学排名(America's Top Colleges)TOP 200

Rank Name State Cost Total Student Population
1 Williams College Massachusetts $61,850 2124
2 Stanford University California $60,749 18519
3 Swarthmore College Pennsylvania $60,671 1552
4 Princeton University New Jersey $55,832 7975
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts $59,020 11189
6 Yale University Connecticut $61,620 11906
7 Harvard University Massachusetts $59,950 28147
8 Pomona College California $59,730 1607
9 United States Military Academy New York N/A 4592
10 Amherst College Massachusetts $61,544 1817
11 Haverford College Pennsylvania $61,898 1205
12 University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania $61,800 24725
13 Brown University Rhode Island $60,460 8885
14 Bowdoin College Maine $59,900 1839
15 Wesleyan University Connecticut $62,849 3262
16 Carleton College Minnesota $60,425 2055
17 University of Notre Dame Indiana $60,117 12126
18 Dartmouth College New Hampshire $63,279 6277
19 Northwestern University Illinois $63,193 21215
20 Columbia University New York $64,144 26471
21 California Institute of Technology California $58,755 2243
22 Davidson College North Carolina $57,458 1790
23 Duke University North Carolina $61,748 15386
24 University of Chicago Illinois $64,988 15245
25 Tufts University Massachusetts $61,000 10837
26 Vassar College New York $61,320 2406
27 United States Naval Academy Maryland N/A 4536
28 Georgetown University District of Columbia $62,179 17357
29 Wellesley College Massachusetts $59,092 2482
30 Middlebury College Vermont $59,470 2516
31 Cornell University New York $61,618 21424
32 Rice University Texas $54,291 6484
33 Washington and Lee University Virginia $58,575 2302
34 United States Air Force Academy Colorado N/A 4120
35 Barnard College New York $61,512 2504
36 Boston College Massachusetts $60,706 14605
37 University of California, Berkeley California $56,197 35893
38 Colgate University New York $60,050 2886
39 Colby College Maine $59,110 1863
40 University of Virginia Virginia $53,461 23907
41 College of William and Mary Virginia $51,306 8258
42 Kenyon College Ohio $60,070 1667
43 Oberlin College Ohio $62,132 2944
44 University of California, Los Angeles California $55,294 39945
45 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan $53,490 43426
46 Reed College Oregon $59,630 1455
47 Whitman College Washington $56,600 1539
48 Lafayette College Pennsylvania $59,750 2488
49 Smith College Massachusetts $60,167 3212
50 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill North Carolina $45,806 29278
51 Colorado College Colorado $57,400 2022
52 Harvey Mudd College California $63,860 784
53 College of the Holy Cross Massachusetts $57,832 2926
54 Vanderbilt University Tennessee $61,112 12710
55 Hamilton College New York $59,590 1884
56 Franklin and Marshall College Pennsylvania $60,765 2365
57 union           College New York $60,150 2241
58 Grinnell College Iowa $56,354 1674
59 Carnegie Mellon University Pennsylvania $62,032 11978
60 Bates College Maine $61,000 1753
61 Wake Forest University North Carolina $60,242 7432
62 University of Rochester New York $61,340 10510
63 Washington University in Saint Louis Missouri $61,808 13952
64 Cooper union           New York $60,075 939
65 Bryn Mawr College Pennsylvania $59,760 1765
66 Macalester College Minnesota $57,478 2070
67 Johns Hopkins University Maryland $61,502 20871
68 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Illinois $43,468 44520
69 Scripps College California $61,370 962
70 University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin $40,181 42269
71 Villanova University Pennsylvania $58,736 10583
72 New York University New York $63,540 44516
73 University of Washington Washington $46,608 43485
74 Brandeis University Massachusetts $61,070 5808
75 Wheaton College Illinois $42,390 3034
76 University of Texas, Austin Texas $50,200 52186
77 Lehigh University Pennsylvania $57,145 7080
78 University of Southern California California $62,180 39958
79 Brigham Young University Utah $17,496 34409
80 Occidental College California $63,363 2178
81 Centre College Kentucky $48,020 1344
82 University of Maryland, College Park Maryland $42,920 37248
83 Trinity College Connecticut $62,310 2371
84 Connecticut College Connecticut $60,780 1933
85 Wofford College South Carolina $49,449 1619
86 Santa Clara University California $59,589 8519
87 University of Florida Florida $41,381 49913
88 Dickinson College Pennsylvania $60,183 2386
89 Boston University Massachusetts $61,446 32603
90 Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia $42,688 21557
91 DePauw University Indiana $53,290 2336
92 Earlham College Indiana $52,710 1196
93 Rhodes College Tennessee $53,422 1927
94 University of Georgia Georgia $40,274 34519
95 Denison University Ohio $56,520 2339
96 University of Richmond Virginia $57,630 4361
97 Mount Holyoke College Massachusetts $55,496 2347
98 Sewanee—University of the South Tennessee $47,970 1588
99 Sarah Lawrence College New York $64,122 1736
100 Furman University South Carolina $57,276 2915
101 Southern Methodist University Texas $61,355 10893
102 Skidmore College New York $60,900 2689
103 Gettysburg College Pennsylvania $58,320 2600
104 Pitzer College California $61,416 1084
105 Providence College Rhode Island $57,625 4672
106 Lawrence University Wisconsin $51,897 1518
107 Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana $45,961 42133
108 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Minnesota $31,531 51853
109 Saint Olaf College Minnesota $51,860 3176
110 Hampshire College Massachusetts $60,155 1461
111 Kalamazoo College Michigan $50,800 1379
112 Pepperdine University California $61,192 7319
113 University of California, Davis California $55,944 32354
114 United States Coast Guard Academy Connecticut N/A 967
115 Lewis & Clark College Oregon $55,666 3702
116 University of California, Santa Barbara California $56,929 21927
117 Virginia Tech Virginia $41,921 31087
118 University of Colorado, Boulder Colorado $50,655 31945
119 Purdue University, West Lafayette Indiana $42,044 40393
120 Yeshiva University New York $55,075 6740
121 Muhlenberg College Pennsylvania $55,370 2422
122 George Washington University District of Columbia $61,446 25653
123 University of Redlands California $58,559 4956
124 College of the Atlantic Maine $49,890 340
125 Bennington College Vermont $61,920 826
126 University of California, San Diego California $53,348 28294
127 Case Western Reserve University Ohio $57,798 10026
128 University of Miami Florida $60,906 16172
129 Virginia Military Institute Virginia $46,630 1664
130 Willamette University Oregon $54,813 2931
131 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute New York $61,820 6658
132 Trinity University Texas $48,630 2458
133 Juniata College Pennsylvania $49,220 1565
134 American University District of Columbia $56,808 12904
135 University of Delaware Delaware $43,432 21856
136 College of Wooster Ohio $53,500 2080
137 Texas A&M University, College Station Texas $37,671 50627
138 Saint Lawrence University New York $59,550 2488
139 University of Denver Colorado $56,077 11656
140 University of Vermont Vermont $49,814 13098
141 University of Utah Utah $38,199 32388
142 Presbyterian College South Carolina $46,378 1403
143 Drake University Iowa $44,349 5270
144 University of California, Irvine California $53,382 27479
145 Ohio Wesleyan University Ohio $55,690 1819
146 Clark University Massachusetts $48,770 3503
147 Tulane University Louisiana $61,178 12958
148 Grove City College Pennsylvania $24,838 2506
149 Knox College Illinois $49,252 1430
150 Fordham University New York $63,438 15170
151 Saint Michael's College Vermont $50,920 2410
152 Hendrix College Arkansas $52,536 1388
153 Colorado School of Mines Colorado $46,533 5721
154 Bard College New York $62,572 2342
155 Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio $41,199 56387
156 Creighton University Nebraska $48,058 7736
157 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo California $35,445 18679
158 Syracuse University New York $57,450 21029
159 Thomas Aquinas College California $35,716 370
160 Hobart and William Smith Colleges New York $59,850 2300
161 Westmont College California $53,670 1353
162 Saint John's College (MD) Maryland $58,630 509
163 Clemson University South Carolina $45,936 20768
164 University of Connecticut Connecticut $46,192 25483
165 Beloit College Wisconsin $50,406 1330
166 Pennsylvania State University, University Park Pennsylvania $46,166 45783
167 North Carolina State University, Raleigh North Carolina $35,639 34340
168 College of New Jersey New Jersey $40,057 7270
169 Michigan State University Michigan $45,536 48783
170 Loyola University Maryland Maryland $58,578 5978
171 Hampden-Sydney College Virginia $51,577 1080
172 Hope College Michigan $40,050 3343
173 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Massachusetts $58,060 5957
174 SUNY, Binghamton (Binghamton University) New York $33,152 15308
175 Wheaton College Massachusetts $58,574 1616
176 Miami University, Oxford Ohio $45,491 17683
177 Rutgers University, New Brunswick New Jersey $43,492 40434
178 Hillsdale College Michigan N/A N/A
179 Wabash College Indiana $46,660 906
180 New College of Florida Florida $43,095 832
181 University of Puget Sound Washington $55,948 2853
182 Elon University North Carolina $43,546 6029
183 Loyola Marymount University California $57,379 9492
184 Transylvania University Kentucky $43,640 1074
185 University of New Hampshire New Hampshire $43,020 15267
186 University of South Carolina, Columbia South Carolina $42,516 31288
187 University of Portland Oregon $53,958 3981
188 James Madison University Virginia $37,218 19927
189 Saint Anselm College New Hampshire $50,394 1954
190 Louisiana State University Louisiana $41,144 30225
191 Saint Louis University Missouri $53,438 17640
192 University of Iowa Iowa $39,561 30129
193 Ursinus College Pennsylvania $58,880 1680
194 College of the Ozarks Missouri $27,276 1372
195 Baylor University Texas $53,886 15364
196 Bentley University Massachusetts $56,930 5647
197 Southwestern University Texas $48,080 1394
198 University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania $42,132 28769
199 Manhattan College New York $52,005 3800
200 University of Wyoming Wyoming $27,865 12903


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