綜合排名指標很容易被操縱。其實最管用的是US News同行評價Peer Assessment Ranking

PA Ranking 對職業發展有比較大的指導作用。畢竟聲譽就是口口相傳的印象和同行心目中的評價, 而不是一堆數字.

在這裏，很多被綜合排名低估，但在社會和業界大顯身手的學校浮上台麵。比如Berkely, UCLA， UT，Michigan等.  比如Michigan在業界基本視為小藤水準.

無疑H,M,S是無法撼動三大校. 也可以說目前全球最佳三校. 同時，俗稱5大藤HYPSM確實與其他學校拉開了一段距離.

世界大學六大超級品牌Elite 6 - Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge + UC Berkeley

(data is from 2013, but still relevant).

表中上下0.1，基本上可看成peer school

 

 

School name (state)	U.S. News National Universities rank	Undergraduate academic peer assessment score	Undergraduate academic peer assessment rank
Harvard University (MA)	1	4.9	1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	6	4.9	1
Stanford University (CA)	6	4.9	1
Princeton University (NJ)	1	4.8	4
Yale University (CT)	3	4.8	4
University of California--Berkeley	21	4.7	6
Columbia University (NY)	4	4.6	7
University of Chicago	4	4.6	7
California Institute of Technology	10	4.6	7
Johns Hopkins University (MD)	13	4.6	7
Cornell University (NY)	15	4.6	7
Duke University (NC)	8	4.5	12
University of Pennsylvania	8	4.4	13
Dartmouth College (NH)	10	4.4	13
Northwestern University (IL)	12	4.4	13
Brown University (RI)	15	4.4	13
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor	29	4.4	13
University of Virginia	24	4.3	18
Carnegie Mellon University (PA)	23	4.2	19
University of California--Los Angeles	24	4.2	19
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill	30	4.2	19
Washington University in St. Louis	14	4.1	22
Vanderbilt University (TN)	17	4.1	22
Georgetown University (DC)	21	4.1	22
Georgia Institute of Technology	36	4.1	22
University of Wisconsin--Madison	41	4.1	22
University of Texas--Austin	46	4.1	22