排名历来都是中国学生和家长普遍用于择校的最重要参考指标,说到排名,每个留学目的国都有自己众多的排名。
从世界范围来说,目前最具影响力的世界排名仅有四家, 分别是中国的软科世界大学学术排名-ARWU(原上海交大世界大学排名)、英国泰晤士报THE World University Ranking、英国QS World University Ranking、美国USNews World University Ranking。
然而面对四个世界排名, 中国学生和家长如何选择, 究竟该以谁为参考标准,同样是一个仁者见仁智者见智的问题。本章节,我们就来说说大学排名的问题。
蓝皮书《金矢有话说 - Golden Arrow Blue Book 2018-2019》第五章:世界大学排名与择校。
为了平衡这四个世界大学排名各自的差异,同时又兼顾到各自的侧重点,我们基于最新公布的ARWU2017(每年8月发布当年的)、QS2018、Times Higher2018、USNews2018,我们将每个大学在这四个榜单上的排名相加除以四,得出均值,再以得出的均值排名,就形成了一个新的“世界大学综合排名”, 希望能给学生和家长一个最全面的世界大学排名榜。
2018世界大学综合排名50强(部分)
Total Ranking | Average of Four Rankings | Country | Institution |
1 | 2.50 | USA | Stanford University |
2 | 2.75 | USA | Harvard University |
3 | 3.00 | USA | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
4 | 4.25 | UK | University of Cambridge |
5 | 4.75 | UK | University of Oxford |
6 | 5.50 | USA | California Institute of Technology |
7 | 8.75 | USA | Princeton University |
8 | 10.50 | USA | University of Chicago |
9 | 12.00 | USA | Columbia University |
10 | 12.25 | USA | Yale University |
11 | 13.50 | USA | University of California, Berkeley |
12 | 14.50 | USA | Johns Hopkins University |
13 | 15.00 | UK | University College London |
13 | 15.00 | UK | Imperial College London |
15 | 16.00 | Switzerland | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich |
16 | 16.25 | USA | University of Pennsylvania |
17 | 17.50 | USA | Cornell University |
18 | 18.25 | USA | University of California, Los Angeles |
19 | 20.50 | USA | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
20 | 21.00 | USA | University of Michigan |
20 | 21.00 | Japan | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) |
22 | 21.25 | USA | Duke University |
23 | 23.50 | USA | Northwestern University |
24 | 24.00 | Canada | University of Toronto |
24 | 24.00 | Switzerland | EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne |
26 | 25.00 | USA | University of California, San Diego |
27 | 27.25 | USA | University of Washington |
28 | 28.00 | UK | The University of Edinburgh |
28 | 28.00 | USA | Wellesley College |
30 | 34.00 | USA | New York University |
30 | 34.00 | Germany | LMU Munich |
32 | 34.50 | Australia | The University of Melbourne |
33 | 35.75 | Canada | University of British Columbia |
34 | 36.00 | Chile | University of Desarrollo |
35 | 36.50 | UK | King's College London |
36 | 38.00 | USA | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
36 | 38.00 | Switzerland | Ecole Polytechnique FEdErale de Lausanne |
38 | 38.75 | Japan | The University of Tokyo |
39 | 39.25 | USA | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
40 | 41.50 | USA | The University of Texas at Austin |
41 | 41.75 | China | Tsinghua University |
42 | 42.75 | Singapore | National University of Singapore |
43 | 43.00 | USA | University of Wisconsin |
44 | 44.00 | USA | Rockefeller University |
45 | 44.67 | Sweden | Karolinska Institute |
46 | 46.25 | UK | The University of Manchester |
47 | 47.50 | Canada | McGill University |
48 | 48.50 | USA | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
48 | 48.50 | Germany | University of Munich |
50 | 48.67 | Germany | Heidelberg University |
从上表我们可以清晰的看到世界50强中美国大学持有垄断地位; 其次是英国大学; 英美不愧是当今世界教育强国的榜样, 代表着教育质量的最高成就。令我们非常欣喜地是,中国作为世界第二大经济体,中国在世界大学排名中的席位也与日俱升。