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Top Research Universities / Gourmet Report


送交者: guman 2003年9月08日17:51:42 于 [教育与学术]http://www.bbsland.com  

  

Top Research Universities

Elsewhere in the Report I suggest that students consider the overall resources and quality of
universities they are considering attending. Although philosophy is a specialized enough field that a
strong philosophy program is reason enough to attend a particular school, many students may find it
helpful to have some perspective on what schools have to offer beyond philosophy. Accordingly, I
include a general ranking of leading research universities in the United States, as measured by the
breadth and depth of academic quality.

Because the 1995 National Research Council study (based on 1992-93 surveys) is out-of-date, I rely
exclusively on the most current U.S. News academic reputation surveys (conducted between 1999 and
2001) for the major fields of professional and academic study (not to be confused with the U.S. News
rankings of professional schools, which weigh a variety of irrelevant factors in addition to academic
reputation). Those core fields are: Law, Medicine, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology,
Applied and Theoretical Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Engineering, English, History, Philosophy,
Political Science, Psychology, Sociology. For Philosophy, obviously, the rankings relied upon were
those in this Report. Medical schools only counted if on the same campus as the research university (an
issue, e.g., for Cornell and Texas).

The scores emphasize depth of quality over breadth, though breadth counts too. For each program in
the top 5, a school received four points; for each additional program in the top 10, a school received
three points; for each additional program in the top 15, a school received two points; and for each
additional program in the top 25, a school received 1 point.

Although the disciplines ranked are not comprehensive (e.g., Astronomy, Classics and Anthropology
were not ranked), it is surely a safe assumption that schools that perform well based on the large
number of fields actually surveyed are generally strong research universities across the boards. The
resulting point total thus gives us a measure of research universities by the breadth and depth of
academic quality. The raw score appears in parentheses, followed by the number of programs in the top
five, ten, fifteen, and twenty-five.

The Top 25 Research Universities in the U.S., 2002-2003 based on the depth and
breadth of academic quality of programs

# of programs in

top 5
top 10
top 15
top 25
1.
Stanford University (66)
15
2
0
0
2.
University of California, Berkeley (59)
12
3
1
0
3.
Harvard University (54)
9
5
0
3
4.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (49)
7
3
5
2
5.
Princeton University (48)
6
6
3
0
6.
Massachussetts Institute of Technology (43)
9
1
2
0
7.
Columbia University (40)
3
5
6
1
7.
Yale University (40)
5
4
2
5
9.
University of Chicago (39)
5
4
2
3
10.
Cornell University (38)
0
8
6
2
11.
University of California, Los Angeles (37)
1
5
7
4
12.
University of Wisconsin, Madison (34)
1
5
5
5
13.
California Institute of Technology (33)
6
2
1
0
14.
University of Texas, Austin (26)
0
2
7
6
15.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (24)
3
2
0
7
16.
University of Pennsylvania (23)
0
4
2
6
17.
Johns Hopkins University (22)
2
2
2
4
18.
Duke University (21)
1
2
3
5
18.
Northwestern University (21)
0
2
5
5
20.
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (19)
1
1
2
8
21.
New York University (18)
2
2
0
4
22.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (17)
1
0
4
5
23.
University of California, San Diego (16)
0
1
2
9
23.
University of Washington, Seattle (16)
0
2
1
8
25.
Brown University (14)
1
0
3
4

Runner-up:

Carnegie-Mellon University (13)
1
2
1
1


Scores for other schools studied (unranked):
University of Maryland, College Park (10)
University of Rochester (5)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (9)
Rice University (4)
University of Virginia (9)
University of California, Davis (4)
Washington University, St. Louis (9)
Emory University (3)
Ohio State University (8)
University of California, Irvine (3)
Indiana University, Bloomington (6)
Georgetown University (2)
Pennsylvania State University (6)
University of Iowa (2)
Purdue University (5)
Vanderbilt University (2)
University of California, Santa Barbara (5)